Wear Your Seatbelt

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Before I describe this scenario to you, I want you to all close your eyes. After a long visit with the family and a stomach stuffed to the max with grandma’s cooking, you decide it’s time to head for home. You make your rounds and tell everyone goodbye, lots of love, and wish them a Merry Christmas. They all do the same and of course mom is the last one who pipes up and says “It’s really slick out there don’t forget to wear your seatbelt!” You reply, “Yes mother…I know.” You race to the car, hop in, start it up, and hit the road. After you get a little ways you start fiddling with the heater and the radio, by the time you look up there is a deer in the middle of the road. Out of instinct you swerve to try to miss it, hit a patch of ice, overcorrect the car, and the car starts to flip. In a matter of seconds you are ejected through the windshield and on to the cold ground. Your body is mangled and you’re losing blood quickly. As you lay there in your final moments you are thinking about all of the things you had hoped to do with your life, the dreams you were going to achieve, all of your loved ones who you are leaving behind, and what might have been if you would of only wore your seatbelt. You can now open your eyes. As you have probably gathered from my story, I am asking you to all, if you don’t already, to start wearing your seatbelt. Now before you start going through all the excuses as to why you don’t wear your seatbelt, and you’re never going to wear your seatbelt, and think that I’m crazy and have no idea what I’m talking about. I want you to REALLY think about it. Those of you that have kids, nieces, nephews, a little brother or sister. Would you ever even consider not putting them in their car-seat or not making them buckle up? NO, you wouldn’t because as an adult you know that is what is best for them and you want to keep them

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