Pluggers by Rick McKee for April 27, 2016

Mine warns me when I leave the key in the ignition and open the door. It’s been useful more times than I’d like to admit.

Seat belt? What’s that?

New vehicles are a mystery. A light tells me a door is now a jar. A bell tells me the lights are on, hmm, I can see that they are on. And I have no buzzer. It’s too complicated and distracting. Airbags!! The only airbag I wish I still had is my wife in the passenger seat.

The good thing about going deaf….I don’t hear that annoying alarm.

I need to get my blood pressure up to be able to drive, so ring away alarm, ring away.

Cool truck, guy!

(on the serious side)…and yet I read in the hometown newspapers and elsewhere about “three passengers were thrown from the vehicle and died upon impact” -type reports. Sad for them and their families, but I’ve wound up in the grass ONCE in my foolish/stupid/learning/pre-belt days and since then, I’ve learned how to un-plug or ‘modify’ the buzzers/dingers/annoyers/alarms and such of many a vehicle, but for someone to just ignore all the SafetyCrat’s warnings is plumb-foolish. Now, let me tell you of the ‘accidents’ I’ve run across in the middl….oh, the hell with it.. just read yer papers and complain about the population decline in your state. No moral here, just an observation from 80+ years of breathing.

looks to be a 68-72 F Series

I don’t think they came with a seat belt.

dtriedelNeither did a ’57 beetle, but I sure put them on mine.

If I don’t keep my belt buckled my pants will fall down…

I wish I had the vehicles I have owned that didn’t have seat belts………..

When I drive nowadays it’s my son’s truck. I can’t figure out what half of alarms are for and I fervently wish the darn thing had real door locks.The biggest pain is the lack of decent labelling on the dash.I’ve spent many minutes trying to decipher the hieroglyphics that are used instead of English words. It took me two years to master the headlight switch, slightly less the windshield wipers.Wish I still had my old ’55 Buick.

neverenoughgoldThe modern three-point harness saved my life when some one who didn’t believe “safety features” like brakes thought 50+ mph was the proper speed to run a red light in downtown Dallas. As the paramedic said, “At least you had your seat belt on,” “How did you know, I am out of the car?” “The fact that you are standing out of the car.”