Saturday, November 14, 2009

Usual here, but not everywhere...

Our weather appears to be back to what we like to call normal; in the balmy eighties, and right now at this evening hour of six P.M. it is just around seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit! Our only problem is that fire season is not yet here, and we are so very, very dry!

Unfortunately, most of the rest of the country is having weather unrest! Stormy weather or cold temperatures, but that’s what you get when you choose to live where seasons are a priority.

Page Field, Fort Myers had an air show today, and a father and son took a $20 plane ride, and the small plane crashed….but thankfully they all survived, even better they were all treated, including the pilot and released at the local hospital there. I sure hope that pilot refunds their money!

Now I could be wrong, I have been many times before, but don’t most places in the civilized world have a seatbelt law? You see, the reason I’m asking is we do have one here in Florida, but I still hear nightly on the news whenever there is a traffic crash and there is a fatality they sadly say and they weren’t wearing their seatbelt! How many times do we have to hear that horrible lament? People, put them on! It’s the law, almost everywhere, even if it isn’t; be smarter than that!

We no longer drive gas guzzling tanks like in days of yore, when we boomers were children or even if your own were born in the nineteen seventies like ours. Yes, I would say we drove tank like vehicles, but gas was cheap and we didn’t know any better. I can remember our eldest, lovingly nicknamed ‘Houdini’, due to his ability to escape from his very well strapped in toddler self from his car seat, and yes we did have them and tried using them too! But, number one son often would magically escape his confines of the mess of spaghetti straps and joined me in the front seat of my 1966 Chevelle Malibu while in transit from here to there! One time in particular sticks in my mind all these more than 35 years later, when a patrol car, yes police vehicle suddenly pulled out in front of me without benefit of any warning like a directional light flashing! I slammed on my brakes, and cursed under my breath to my small child’s unknowing being of what it meant (I HOPE, at least he says he doesn’t remember) who had just banged his beautiful little towheaded topped noggin on my rear view mirror, but fortunately without a scratch or even a cry. But boy was I mad! At the cop, of course, so mad so that I cut him off while using my indicator light and hand motions for him to pull over and he did and I gave him a piece of my mind! He apologized and thanked me, huh? Yes, that’s how I remember it, and I was maybe twenty-four years old or so at that time. I hope that peace officer was more careful after that, but who knows… One can only hope you get through to some people.

So now in this day and age where the seatbelt and car seats have evolved into true protection for us and loved ones and so use them so you don’t become another statistic! Ya hear?

Tobi’s orders, please! I wear mine all of the time.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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