Grandparents are Amazing...

By Bick · Oct 2, 2009 · ·
  1. So, I got in a car wreck on Tuesday. I have the bad habit of not wearing my seat belt. I should have gone through that wind shield, but someone was looking out for me. Asleep in the car when the woman hit us from behind, I somehow found the ability to wake up in those split seconds and to put my hands forward to take the blow. I hurt both wrists, one more than the other. My left taking the brunt of it, I'm still exercising it so I can fully use it again. For now, they're both just irritated. Nothing broken.

    The woman who was driving, got a lot more damage than I did and she had her seat belt on. The car is totaled, and a woman arrested for driving a stolen car. She was also driving under the influence and resisted arrest.

    I texted everyone that needed to know when it had happened, father included. He apparently told my grandparents that I wasn't wearing my seat belt, and this is the email I got.

    They sent it to our entire family :p Mass email.

    God. I love my Grandparents.

Comments

  1. marina
    They have this slogan here: Click it or ticket.

    Glad nothing worse happened to you. :)
  2. ChimmyBear
    You have very good grandparents. :)

    You are blessed.
  3. Cogito
    A couple years ago, my son was driving my daughter down to my place from New Hampshire. Being an inexperienced driver, he put on the brakes when he found himself sliding on an icy overpass at about 70 MPH. The car went into a spin and slammed into the concrete barrier between the north and south lanes. The car was totalled, but both of them walked away with barely a scratch, because they were botj securely belted in. They thanked me several times for always insisting they wear their seatbelts whenever they were in a car. They are both sure that they would have died.

    I'm glad you weren't seriously injured.
  4. Bick
    I take this experience as a warning to wear my seatbelt. I found myself consciously thinking about it when I got into the car the other day. That, and now I have people on my tail. But, in the end they just care, and that's all I'll take it as.

    :rolleyes:

    I'll be wearing my seatbelt from now on, no matter how much they annoy me.
  5. pinelopikappa
    Always wear your seatbelt. It has become a reflex for me, I don't even think about it.

    Meanwhile, I read somewhere that in one particular european country that will remain unidentified, when the laws about seatbelts became tougher (and very expensive!), the following method was used to trick the police. T-shirts appeared, with the image of a seatbelt across the chest. The drivers preferred to wear those rather than the actual seatbelt, so that the police wouldn't stop them and fine them.:eek:
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