One more thing guys, if you don't mind.

Of the people who decide not to wear their helmets here, in states that have no helmet laws, let me ask you...Do you buckle-up while behind the wheel?

Now I may be a little slow here(naw, not really...a little self-deprecation false modesty there), but I can't tell you the number of times I've read stories in the paper of people being thrown from cars in accidents and the authorities claiming later that Joe Doofus would have lived had he buckled-up.

Ahhh, it's just propaganda from Big Brother, right?(he asked pointedly)

Well, I'm still stickin' to my original thesis that almost without exception, people ride sans brain-bucket because of some ego/vanity/I'm a "real man"/"the hell with my loved ones"/misplaced ideas about "freedom"/"it doesn't look cool riding my Harley or Triumph wearing a helmet, that's for those idiots riding those Rice Rockets", mindset!

Don't worry though....I've been there too...MANY TIMES! My ego/etc.,has made me do many thoughtless things throughout my life.

Dwight
(The words: Rational and rationalization, have a slight but very important difference in meaning)

(Budster...sorry....but you got me started)


Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)