do any of you NOT wear seatbelts in the car? (or have family or friends who don't?)

[Lucky1]

Originally Posted by Coupsoup

Not wearing seatbelts is like peak boomer mentality.

My father (Boomer) never wore a seatbelt. Official rationale, the one time he felt compelled to provide one, was that his gut was too big (he’s overweight) and it was too tight on him.

He also grew up in the era where “men were men”, like John Wayne “A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do” type. You don’t wear safety glasses when operating a buzzsaw and slicing wood, if you lost an eye well that’s part of the game son. Wear that eyepatch like a badge of pride (his Uncle did when he lost his eye cutting wood). Worrying about what might happen to you is a weakness that might cause injury, death or worse betray your masculinity.

In addition to not wearing his seatbelt and being overweight he:

-has asthma and doesn’t always fill his puffer prescription
-does not exercise
-smoked until he was in his 50’s
-drank 2L of Coca Cola every day
-got diabetes
-had a bunch of kidney stones
-needs glasses to drive but does not wear them
-uses his cell phone SCREEN TO FACE while driving even though he CANNOT see the cell phone (note: he needs glasses)
-blew out two of his knees and put off surgery because the longer he waits the longer his new knees will last
-uses pool floaties to fall onto the ground on since he can no longer bend over (sadly cannot get up on his own either which makes this even more interesting)
-would rather piss on the side of the road than stop at a McDonalds restroom (he’s incontinent)
-nearly died of heart failure because he needed to wait a few weeks for contractors to fix his roof (because that was more important than seeing his doctor when he suddenly couldn’t breath)
-didn’t bother doing his colon cancer screening years ago and guess what? He now has cancer according to the gigantic tumour the doctor’s pulled out of him
-walked (walkered?) out of his doctor’s office instead of getting his cancer diagnosis and treatment plan because the receptionist was “rude to him”

I’m pretty sure he doesn’t think he’s going to get in a car accident.

[Brandoch]

Originally Posted by Lucky1

My father (Boomer) never wore a seatbelt. Official rationale, the one time he felt compelled to provide one, was that his gut was too big (he’s overweight) and it was too tight on him.

He also grew up in the era where “men were men”, like John Wayne “A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do” type. You don’t wear safety glasses when operating a buzzsaw and slicing wood, if you lost an eye well that’s part of the game son. Wear that eyepatch like a badge of pride (his Uncle did when he lost his eye cutting wood). Worrying about what might happen to you is a weakness that might cause injury, death or worse betray your masculinity.

In addition to not wearing his seatbelt and being overweight he:

-has asthma and doesn’t always fill his puffer prescription
-does not exercise
-smoked until he was in his 50’s
-drank 2L of Coca Cola every day
-got diabetes
-had a bunch of kidney stones
-needs glasses to drive but does not wear them
-uses his cell phone SCREEN TO FACE while driving even though he CANNOT see the cell phone (note: he needs glasses)
-blew out two of his knees and put off surgery because the longer he waits the longer his new knees will last
-uses pool floaties to fall onto the ground on since he can no longer bend over (sadly cannot get up on his own either which makes this even more interesting)
-would rather piss on the side of the road than stop at a McDonalds restroom (he’s incontinent)
-nearly died of heart failure because he needed to wait a few weeks for contractors to fix his roof (because that was more important than seeing his doctor when he suddenly [...]

That's some dedication and determination right thar.