OK, the TV tech thing, I as good enough to beat out 154 applicants at Electra Sound, and fixed 8-10 sets a day with no recalls. I also fixed the oes nobody else couls figure out. I had a system for troubleshooting that I found impossibe to teach anyone else.

About seat belts, I as the front seat passenger in a 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix that slammed into one of those big telephone oles, the kind that don't break. The people in the back seat slammed into the front seat with so much force that the front seat was pushed so far forward that I could not reach the door handle to open it. If I had been wearing a seat belt I would be in a wheelchair.

A motorcycle helmet is useless. Only thing it is good for is if someone throws a rock at you. I do agree about having to wear glasses because there can be **** flying around in the air, kicked up by people's tires etc. Of course, plus if you are driving around blinded you create a hazard for others. This is where the line is drawn. And well should be. But the helmet will facilitate you bcoing a vegetable rather than dead. I don't want to sound like I am putting down people who are crippled, but I would just as soon die. Just don't tell them that because I don't want to insult them. If you have problems, my apologies, but facts are facts.

I believe people put too much stock in life. We are all going to die someday so there is no sense in fearing it. There are types of hurt that are worse, look at how much business Kevorkian got. they sactually even sell suicide kits. I guess some ppeople agree, it ain't worth the suffering sometimes.

Now I am not saying to make things purposely unsafe. The thing about the ike sticking out the dashboard of a cvar, well that is a joke, but seat belts and air bags ? Let people's ribs get busted on the steering wheel so that they learn how to fucing drive. Proper following distance is NOT one inch per hundred miles per hour. I also think that if someone changes three lanes within so many feet there should be a device in the car that shocks their genitals. That would do more for traffic safety rather than that which will instill a sense of invulnerability.

Ever read that poem called "You Didn't See Me" about motorcyclists ? Maybe I'll see if I can find it later.

But with all this, what I would do and all that, I wil not ride a motorcycle on the streets. I would ride a dirt bike for fun. I would do alot of stupid **** for fun. But I think it is foolhardy to ride in traffic. People are just too damn dumb out there.

You know, if you can drive, you can drive after a few drinks. You can drive on the cellphone. You can drive and eat.

However, if you can just barely do it under optimal conditions, you should pay 100 % attention to it. People don't know how to back out of a damn parking spot. They don't know the width odf their car and you can't see the front fenders. Alot of them lack the spatial reasoning and could never drive a big truck. Though not licensed to do so, I have driven a big truc and let me tell you it is no trivial matter. What's more, people in cars make it a nightmare. These days, my poor eyesight makes it so I would not even try it.. That is called not being stupid. I also won't drive a car under alot of conditions, too bright sun, raining and dark, things like that. I don't even like driving anywhere I haven't been before. I can technically pass the eyue test becaause they are not testing for what is wrong with me. Goes to show you how efficient the government is at saving us fron ourselves.

They fail, and take all the fun out of life. Man, when we were kids we stood up in the back seat and Dad would punch it throwing us violently into the seat. It was fun as hell and we did not get hurt. You couldn't get the smile off my face when these fast cars were accelerating.

Then when I got older I once got a ticket for flying in a car. How many people do you know who can say that ? LOL. But it isn't bull****. I should have saved the ticket but I am pretty sure they took it when I paid it. Should have made a copy of it for proof. but I was much younger and you could get away with that ****. People were not on cellphones because nobody had them.. The cars were like tanks. And people I truly believe were healthier. Their bones did not brea as easily, they qwere just tougher. W eused to get into street fights and barroom brawls. Next morning "Damn I'm sore". Nopw everybody goes to the hospital and tries to find someone to sue.

And let's not even get into the treehouse thihng. Treehouses were where the kids learned some of the things you mentioned. Back in the day, little Johnny falls out of the treehouse and breaks his arm. The adults at that house take him a few blocks down the road to the family doctor and call the Parents because they have to be there for the kid to get it worked on. Sure, the doc can manipultate it and get the bones back in place to get rid of most of the pain, but they have to be there to give permission for anything else, and of course pay the TWENTY BUCKS. OK it was a little more than that, butnot like today. With CAT scans and Xrays and three neurosurgeons, and then three prescriptions, nohgody can afford that. So now there is insurance.

If not for insurance, things would cost less. A CAT scan would be fifty bucks. A car bumper would be fifty bucks. But no, you need to martgage your house to get a CAT scan, and a taillight lens for your car is a $300 piece of plastic.

The market would never bear this **** if not for the socialism of insurance..