If you don't wear your seatbelt
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Anonymous
Heh, drive through West Virginia sometime. No seatbelts, no car seats, and last time I went, there was a three-year-old (or so) hanging halfway out the window of a pickup truck that sped past me on the highway. |
Anonymous
| One of my husband's good friends from college was from West Virginia and never wore one. Several years ago he had an accident on an icy road, was thrown from his truck and died of his injuries - hours later - in the woods several yards from the highway. |
Anonymous
| I don't understand how you could stand the constant beeping from your car's seatbelt warning. I have to take mine off to reach the parking garage reader at worker. i don't put it back on to drive through the garage at 2 MPH but the constant beep, beep, beep drives me nuts. |
Anonymous
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I have a hard time believing the boobs-too-big excuse. The belt goes between your boobs. I have DDDs, and it's only a problem if I'm wearing a sports bra that gives me "uniboob" -- then the shoulder belt wants to slide up towards my neck in an uncomfortable and unsafe way. If I'm wearing a regular bra, the strap goes against my chest, between the ladies, just fine.
And I am religious about seat belt use. If a passenger in my car doesn't buckle up, I tell them I insist on it ever since my friend in high school died with 3 other kids in a car crash where none of them were wearing seat belts. Which is true. |
Anonymous
No, Einstein. She wasn't wearing a seatbelt and thus bounced around the car, causing her to die. |
Anonymous
| I was at a light in Gaithersburg recently and in a Mercedes next to me had a woman and what appeared to be her mom in the front and a young ES aged boy was in the back - with no seatbelt. He kept leaning in between the 2 front seats to talk to the women. If that wasn't bad enough, when the light turned green she proceeded to get in front of me to hop onto 270 S. So we were all on the highway going about 65 miles per hour and she had a boy with no seat belt. It drove me crazy as for the first exit or so we were driving near each other and I could see him sitting there - leaning forward with his head between the 2 front seats. |
Anonymous
| My boyfriend and I do not. I was in an accident growing up in a truck and I survived completely unharmed because I was able to move toward the middle when we were hit. Otherwise I'd have been stuck next to the door when we were hit. |
Anonymous
I'm a 40DDD--granted yours may be larger, but the belt just crosses between them. It's never been a problem. |
Anonymous
| I survived a near fatal accident because of my seatbelt..would have been toast without it..we are talking "closed casket" toast. |
Anonymous
right the crash happened b/c they were being pursued by a bunch of photographers on motorcycles (although the courts did not find these a-holes at fault) |
Anonymous
liar liar pants on fire |
Anonymous
| I feel naked without my seat belt. Seriously. I can't even do it around the block. |
Anonymous
Not all cars beep, mine does not. |
Anonymous
| I get the boobs thing, but I wear my seatbelt anyway. Here's a tip I sometimes use: I'll take a scarf and place it between my shoulder and the belt -- it gives just enough room to relieve the rubbing of the belt across my chest, and it's still very secure. |
Anonymous
Oh really? Gee, I didn't know that!! Surely you can't be this obtuse. Read the title of the topic. |