Story I: Backgammon

If you cut a key the right way and learn to give it a good tap when you put it in a lock, you can open a dead bolt. It's called bumping.

Start at the beginning. What is bumping?

Mark’s stepdad worked at a box store and showed him how to use a key cutter to make a bump key and how you tap it right to make a dead bolt open. The whole high school was busting into each other’s houses.

Mark wanted to do “bump and runs,” in and out, leaving the key on the kitchen table or something, but for me b…