Well guys, though I know I've expressed the following thought here before, but for you recent arrivals around here I'll reiterate my take on this whole smoking issue and how it might figure into this whole helmet thing...

Yep, I still smoke, and yep, I know it's pretty much a dumb CHOICE on my part to continue to risk my health by doin' it.

BUT, at LEAST I can ADMIT that whenever I venture down the street to purchase yet another pack of those cancer sticks, I AIN'T usin' my best judgment. AND, whenever ANYBODY says to me that they think smokin' isn't a wise choice, I HAVE, and I DO always AGREE with those folks who tell me that! And I'm NOT patronizing them when I agree with them EITHER. I KNOW that they're speaking the friggin' TRUTH!

But, I wonder how many folks around here OR those riders I see out there on the road who I don't know, CAN or WILL admit to themselves, or anybody else for that matter, that NOT wearin' a helmet while ridin' around ISN'T the best CHOICE that they can make TOO???!!!

'CAUSE, from what I tend to MAINLY SEE around here is almost ALWAYS a REFUSAL by those folks who CHOOSE not to wear a helmet is to ADMIT that their CHOICE is a less than wise CHOICE! And THEN, these folks tend to get very very very DEFENSIVE about their CHOICE and then attempt to rationalize their choice, just as I attempt to rationalize my choice to smoke. But, ONCE AGAIN you see, I've always fully ADMITTED that I'm boarding on bein' a friggin' MORON every single time I CHOOSE to LIGHT UP a friggin' cigarette!!!

BECAUSE, just like what the Surgeon General has been tellin' us for YEARS NOW that VERIFIABLE SCIENTIFIC DATA has shown smoking very often leads to lung cancer, emphysema, heart attacks and myriad other ailments, OTHER verifiable scientific data(let alone common-friggin'-sense) has shown wearin' a friggin' BRAIN BUCKET will lead to LESS brain injury in the event of a person(whether that person is a friggin' moronic smoker such as myself, or that person has lungs as pure as the driven snow) crashing their motorcycle, and thus their chances of survival in that event will INCREASE.

(NOW, do you folks get it????...I would just for once like to hear from the people who CHOOSE to refrain from wearin' a helmet to ADMIT that their friggin' CHOICE is a less than wise choice, and WITHOUT havin' them gettin' all friggin' DEFENSIVE about it...that's all...COME ON, I know it's tough for some folks to admit they sometimes make less than wise choices in their life, but it's REALLY NOT that friggin' HARD to DO...it just takes a little friggin' SELF-AWARENESS and ability to call a friggin' spade a friggin' spade, even IF that friggin' spade turns out to be YOU...THAT'S all!!!)

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)