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[mowerman]

I only quit smoking cigarettes for health purposes. I still smoke cigars and chew, but I always spend about $12 a week for both.

[GA_Dave]

Car seats - My kids were born in 1980, 1981 ans 1984.  Only the last one had to have a car seat when born.  Safety standards were minimal in any of the seats available at that time.  Their use was not mandatory nationwide until later.

Dad's 1969 New Yorker was the first car we had that had seat belts in the back seat.  My Uncle had a 1970 Chevy C-10 with a cap and brought his five kids up to NY from TX with 4 of them riding in the back.  The number of times I rode in the back of an open pickup is too many to count.  I also used to ride on the tailboard of speeding fire engines.

I have cut seat belts off of plenty of dead bodies in wrecks and have personally walked away from more than one wreck where I was not wearing one.  Worked a wreck one time where a Chevette hit a tree as wide as the car at high speed.  The least injured of the five people inside was the one not belted in, who was ejected.

Edited 1 hour ago by GA_Dave

[70mackMB]

Don't forget about napping up in the window behind/over the rear seat! And today in NH no helmets for motorcycle riders.     .....Hippy 

[Joey Mack]

I used to run with scissors..  does that count ? 😋

[Geoff Weeks]

Stat's favor wearing seatbelts by a huge degree. Having run a tow truck, I would agree with the stat's. For every rule, you can find an exception, that doesn't negate the rule.

I rode around in the bed of pick-ups, it wasn't illegal, rode from Mass to Maine several times. Riding in trailers was. 

In High school we had I think 10-12 in the bed, may be it was less, but not much.

[mowerman]

i did the same thing around 73 mass to maine,,,i had pretty long hair then,,,didnt figure on hair was full of knots,when we arrived,,,,lol 

[mowerman]

14 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

I used to run with scissors..  does that count ? 😋

and i suppose that was after your parents,told you time after time not to,lol.bob

[mowerman]

as geoff said seat belts are a blessing in (most) cases,,,,49 years in big rigs,,,i never wore the seatbelts untill they started installing those annoying noises in all the dashboards