My Life on a Legal Pad

The more easily your car alarm is set off, the more likely you are to have gone far away and left me to listen to your car horn honk over & over. Which is dumb because who's gonna check to make sure your vehicle isn't being stolen? Not you. Not me.

Identical whump-clang sound sequences every day. One's the mail carrier dropping our neighbor's mail into the box & letting the flap drop. The other is a local handyman's truck pulling his tool trailer over a storm grate. Everyday Mystery: did the mail come?