Car safety tips

[soesja]

These car safety tips will help you stay safe while on the road.

- Make sure children are safely buckled as well as yourself. When buckling up in the car, make it a habit to assure everyone is safely buckled before the starting the car. Safely buckled means 1) using all straps, not just the lap belt 2) One person per buckle and 3) Young or short children (5’ 2” or under) in the backseat. Passenger-side airbags are designed for normal-height adults. If deployed, the airbag creates a safety hazard for children or short people sitting in the passenger seat.

- Do not use cell phones while driving the car. Pull over to the side of the road to make and complete your call. There are three reasons it is not safe to talk on the cell phone while driving: 1) You must look away from the road while dialing or hanging up. 2) Your attention is elsewhere while completing the conversation and 3) In the case of hand-held telephones, you lose mobility as you juggle the telephone.

- Do not eat while driving the car. Both your attention and ability to react are impaired. The same goes for reading, putting on make-up, shaving, etc.

- Look forward at all times. This keeps you alert to changing traffic and unsafe road conditions.

- Keep both hands on the wheel. This allows you to react more quickly if you have to make an emergency stop or swerve suddenly.

- Stay calm. If someone in another car cuts you off or does something you do not like, stay cool. Getting angry or retaliating creates a safety risk. Remember that in the big scheme of things, IT DOESN’T MATTER. Brush it off and move on. It isn’t worth an injury or your life.

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Originally Posted by soesja

These car safety tips ....

FREE! Psychic safety tips:

-Wear a condom or insist your partner wear one, lest you should become burdened with children who will drive you mad when you drive them anywhere.

-Always use cell phones while driving the car to communicate with other drivers who are also using cell phones while driving their cars. 1) write your cell number on a brillo board and paste it in the back window; 2) do not exceed 30 mph and occupy as many lanes as possible; 3) when other drivers call you to ask you to get out of the way, tell them you're driving the best you can while talking on the phone.

-Because self-image and good nutrition are essential to psychic health, be sure to eat, read improving literature, apply lip-liner, and shave your legs while driving, but ONLY if you've got the cruise control switched ON.

-Look forward to where you're going. The ugliness of other cars, highway litter, boorish billboards etc. can be produce negative vibrations in even the most seasoned driver. Careful meditation is the only way to transcend such mundanity, and utopically visualizing your destination is essential to escaping the banal reality of road conditions where you presently are.

-Keep both hands on the top of your head. You'll be tempted to manually fiddle with the steering wheel and radio knobs otherwise, and telekinetic ability will forever elude you.

-Stay calm. If someone in your discussion thread does something you do not like, stay cool. Getting angry or retaliating is poor form. Remember that in the big scheme of things, EVEN SPAMMERS NEED TO EAT. Brush it off and make fun of their insipid cut-and-paste pablum with a few choice words you made up yourself. It's worth a moment of your time to parody prose that lacks stylistic merit, is vapid of useful content, and exists solely to permit the re-posting of an auto-parts vendor's web site address.