I have always been a nervous nelly. That is why I live in an apartment building. I like the idea of a doorman between me and the person coming to see me. I remember one time when we had a weekend house in Quogue, Long Island, my daughter Whitney answered the front door for a Jehovah’s Witness. She was around 10 years old at the time. I was a few feet away, but she ran to the door first. In my mind, someone could have snatched her in the doorway. I flipped out and begged her never to open the front door again unless she knew exactly who was on the other side.

You can laugh all you want at my story, but I have always believed, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Thank you Ben Franklin for that good advice. I am not saying that I have control over bad things happening but I sure try to avoid it. That is why I was shocked when I learned that Walmart is seriously considering the idea of using in-store customers to deliver online orders as a way for them to reduce shipping costs.

I couldn’t believe it. So let me get this straight. I buy a TV from Walmart.com and then they get some unscreened lunatic to deliver it to me? No way !!! I would rather buy the TV for a few bucks more than have some perv or, worse, some flesh-eating serial killer show up at my front door. If some nut is interested in flesh, I have plenty of it. I know that I would like to lose a lot of it, but not to a hacker with teeth.

My sources tell met me that Walmart currently ships online purchases from 25 stores around the country using Fed Ex as their delivery service. Walmart reportedly is looking for folks to drop off packages to other customers who are on their way home. In exchange, they will get a discount on their next purchase.

In the Internet world, this is called crowd-sourcing. In my world, this is called insanity.