Wear your seatbelt!!!

I was going to do a big long missive on why it's good to wear your seatbelt. But now I can't be bothered.

Let's just say that, yeah, there's the occassional instance where the driver's side gets crushed in or some-such, and wasn't it lucky that the driver got tossed into the back seat instead. But in general, you **don't** want to go shooting out the front window and slam into a tree.

Two choices: If you're going from 45mph down to zero mph, would you rather do it with (1) just your street clothes as padding, or (2) strapped into a protective steel shell, which absorbs the impact?

BTW -- avoid driving with your windows more than halfway down. TG and I both used to subscribe to an amp amputee e-mail list, and a good chunk of them lost their arms by getting their arms crushed and/or torn off in a car accident: either the arm got flung out the window as the car flipped over and over; or the car flipped onto its side, skidding, and ground the arm against the asphalt.

Yeh -- much better to let the glass window get all scratched up, instead.


--GG