safety/security tips from my dad (if you are borderline irrationally paranoid)

My dad likes to say he is a careful person and there is nothing wrong with that. The problem is is that he can sometimes seem too careful to the point that will drive you crazy. Don't get me wrong, my dad does not lock himself up in his home with cameras surrounding his house. Please, he wouldn't pay for that. Although, he has put up one of those security stickers on the front window trying to trick potential intruders into thinking that you paid for a fancy alarm system when you haven't.

My dad is the type of person who will never leave a window open downstairs if you are upstairs sleeping. He is really big on closing all the windows and locking them up (including the metal bar you shoved at the bottom for extra security) before going to bed. One time when I was in high school, my brother was the last person downstairs and forgot to close the kitchen window. The next morning, I found a note on the window that said, "Who left this open?" My brother replied on the note, "I did," put the note back and left the window open. My dad did not think it was funny when he saw it.

1.) Don't leave your keys by the door (as in on a hook by the door or on a table)
To a normal person this would be a reasonable place to keep your keys because you can grab them on your way out. But to my dad, leaving the keys near the door is too close to the outside because someone can easily grab it. For some reason it doesn't occur to my dad that if an intruder is already inside the house, that intruder doesn't need the keys to the house.

2.) Don't leave anything including a pile of clothes in the passenger seat of your car
Once I drove my dad to the store and I had a pile of old clothes (with my high school prom dress on top of the pile) in the backseat of my car. My dad asked if I had wanted to put them in the trunk as a safety precaution while we went shopping because someone might want to break into my car and steal the clothes. For some reason, it doesn't occur to my dad that no one in this world wants to steal my gold lamé trimmed prom gown I got from an outlet store. No. One.

3.) Always be cautious of the people installing or fixing your cable or internet... because they might be tapping your lines.
This is beyond being careful about who you let into your home. I understand there is reason to always be alert when you're a woman home alone and the cable guy is in your house fixing your cable or internet. My dad likes to take it a step further and warn me to be careful because they could've tapped my internet somehow and steal my information, like Watergate.