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8 Responses to "QotD: Buckle Up"

1. | Reply The Plaid Cow
   Posted 02 Sep 2005 at 11:38pm #
   

   Yep, every time. Saved me serious injury at least twice. Some people however, take the New Hampshire state motto of Live Free or Die to its logical conclusion.

2. | Reply Ross
   Posted 03 Sep 2005 at 4:04am #
   

   Yeah, front and back. I guess it is easier to remember over here as it is a legal requirement and you will be fined if you are caught by the police.

3. | Reply Geoff
   Posted 03 Sep 2005 at 8:33am #
   

   We even make the kids wear helmets. Okay, not really. But everyone is buckled in.

4. | Reply Julia
   Posted 03 Sep 2005 at 9:43am #
   

   I do most of the time.. It depends who i'm with...

5. | Reply Alex Eiser
   Posted 03 Sep 2005 at 10:25am #
   

   I always do... and I still can't understand how people might even think not to. (although, the depends on who your with has some merit).. but even then I would buckle up.

6. | Reply Heinrich
   Posted 03 Sep 2005 at 12:42pm #
   

   I was an EMT in college, and saw plenty of people NOT wearing their seat belts in car accidents. Not pretty.

   I was sitting in class and another student noticed my pager on my belt. He explained to me that he could never get his wife to wear a seat belt, and asked me to talk to his wife.

   Being poor and hungry, I suggested that we all go to lunch (he paid), and I would casually bring it up in conversation.

   Needless to say, his wife couldn't finish her lunch when I was done (I ended up eating the rest of her lunch).

   The final (true) story that stopped her cold...I saw a women put her face thru a windshield. The glass cut into her face just below her nose, and sliced up her skull, leabing the nose and upper cheek hanging like a flap on her head.

   I saw my classmate a few times before I graduated, and I always asked how his wife was doing.

   She is still wearing HER seat belt.

   Needless to say, I ALWAYS wear a seatbelt and so do my kids.

7. | Reply Bud Landry
   Posted 03 Sep 2005 at 10:59pm #
   

   Once it is habit you don't notice if you have fastened.. you tend to notice if passengers have NOT.

   I only say that in wondering, trying to recall, prompted by this discussion, if....

   1) I was wearing my belts during the two minor collisions I have had.
   2) If these collisions may have reinforced my buckle up behavior in anyway.

   I think buckling up was already a fairly solid habit, as I recall.

   Anyone recall a collision CHANGING their attitude or habits?

8. | Reply Carey Barzeski
   Posted 06 Sep 2005 at 5:47pm #
   

   I buckle up. I feel like I'm going to fall out of my seat or something without it!