If you did that today, your kids would probably sue you.
JR
Dweller in the cellar
carl mciver wrote:
"Bruce L. Bergman" wrote in message
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| Please - Wear your seatbelts, every single time you get in a car.
|
| They were installed for your own good. Even if you don't like the
| mandatory seatbelt laws. Even if you write a combative "Letters To
| The Editor" opinion editorial railing against them, and insisting you
| will not wear them.
|
When my adolescent boys were much younger one decided to join with his
brother in protesting the seat belt rule. We were in the driveway. One was
standing up in the back seat of our super cab truck, with the other one
standing on the front seat, leaning over into the back. Obviously I wasn't
getting my point across, so I put the truck in drive, tapped the gas then
stomped on the brake. Moved about four feet. I said "hold on" when I tapped
the gas, which is more courtesy than you get in traffic. The one in the
front seat smacked his head on the windshield, winding up on the floor, and
the one in the back flipped into the front seat after hitting his head on
the back window. Screamed bloody murder, but I got my point across. Never
had the issue come up again, and the peer pressure does the job now that
there's four kids.
Of course, many of us grew up in much looser seatbelt laws, so mine and
older generations are usually the gripers, not the ones who grew up with
shoulder belts, car seats, and air bags "all their lives."
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