#wear your seatbelt

[garfield-ontherun]

safety first!

[rory-bor-e-alis]

Safety first

[l4mpzdiary]

Tommy does physics!

Tommy!!! Sorta…u can kinda see it right?

He’s going down the ramp!

Without seatbelt

TOMMY NOOOO

Tommy has a seatbelt now :)

He’s ok :)

but we need to do more…to go HIGHER!!!!

“Uhh, are you sure this is OSHA approved?”

He’s A-OK!!! =D

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Remember kids! Wear ur seatbelt or else

[nemesis-dreamer]

Seatbelts save lives

Wear your goddamn seatbelt

This has been a PSA after a car accident

[weed-cat]

it's sooooo 11am on a wednesday whyyyy am i crying about princess diana dying in 1997 wtf

[tweakergf]

[kitsunesakii]

It's an older drawing but it's one of my favorites

[strugglebudussy]

Have you ever just started a new hobby so you'll stay out of your own head? Especially after the death of a loved one? Cause like I plan to start streaming because that's easier than admitting my older brother is dead. I know it won't fix the problem, but I'm hoping it will make it easier than dealing with it head-on.

[onbearfeet]

I think a lot these days about a story my granddad told me.

Granddad was a career US Army finance officer who served from sometime around 1940 to sometime around 1960. He had access to a lot of seemingly boring reports on how efficiency might be improved and money saved on things the Army did at scale, like repairing jeeps and issuing boots and such. And at some point in the 1950s, he ran across a study the Army had done about seatbelts.

The question being examined in the study was fairly simple: is it worth the cost to install seatbelts in Army jeeps and trucks? Would it save the Army more money (in terms of lost training, medical care, death benefits, etc.) than it would cost (in terms of purchase and installation and retraining) to make soldiers buckle up outside of combat? A pure cost-benefit analysis.

Now, Granddad was not exactly a safety zealot, especially when it came to cars. He learned to drive from his local bootleggers during Prohibition, and it showed. (He later had to be forbidden from teaching his grandkids how to pull a bootlegger's turn.) He liked to do his own maintenance and repairs, and until he bought a Volvo in the 1980s with a computer in it, he never drove a car he didn't understand down to the smallest part. He made his own customized tools. He had supreme confidence in his ability to make any motor vehicle do precisely what he wanted, when he wanted it to do it, and to my knowledge, no vehicle ever let him down.

He read that Army seatbelt study once, and he immediately went out and bought a seatbelt kit to install in the family car.

Seatbelts weren't standard back then. They were a premium add-on, something for paranoids to pay extra for. Nobody used them, at least in the places Granddad and his family lived. He'd made it through Prohibition, the Depression, World War II and the Korean War without buckling up once.

He described to me how he bolted those seatbelts into the family car, right there on the driveway, while the neighbors stared in bafflement and two of his three kids bellyached about it. Only Grandma stood by in silence, holding the baby and watching it all with solemn eyes. She'd seen several gory car and plane crashes, enough to be a nervous flier for the rest of her life, and she wasn't going to complain about anything that would make travel less deadly.

And after that, buckling up was family law. Granddad did it, Grandma did it, and any kid who unbuckled while the engine was on got an extremely memorable shouting-at in Army and maybe an ass-whooping because it was the past.

I know the seatbelt thing must have been a blow to his pride, considering what an excellent driver and mechanic he'd always been, exactly the kind of person who would complain about seatbelt laws when I was a kid. But I never asked him why he'd been so quick to install those "unnecessary" seatbelts, decades before the major studies were in and the law began requiring them. I never asked because he told me before I could think of it.

He said, "I looked at those numbers, and I knew I had to. I wouldn't be any kind of man if I didn't."

Anyway, this is your periodic reminder, regardless of your gender identity or lack thereof, that covid is still a thing and you should wear your fucking mask.

[xmikamarble]

FIRST CLIP STUDIO DRAWING!!!

HAPPY GAY MONTH BITCHESSS!!! I got Clip Studio two days ago, and so far, it's SUCH AN UPGRADE FROM FIREALPACA !!

If you'd like something drawn by me, hmu!

[yesloulou]

Race week. Get filthy. | Daniel on Instagram, Sept 2019 (x)

[beuatifulbuttercup]

no seat belt PSA will ever be as convincing as the last chapter of SBG

[charrfie]

That one art meme everyone has been doing lately! Flaky almost crashed the car so jowee took over and no one has spoken for the past 30 minutes. Most miserable car ride ever

The original if anyone wants it!

[kugisakiss]

welcome to my malewife takagi agenda

[kitsunesakii]

🚨OLD ART ALERT🚨

Named after my cats

[54prowl]

was gonna finish up and send out some comms today but I had to go to the ER for a relative that got into an accident late last night and welp.

tip box for expenses not covered by insurance