How To Click It Or Ticket

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Click it or ticket
“Click it or ticket”, that is what my grandson has to say every time someone gets ready to leave in an automobile. I can’t believe what one child has to say would make such a difference in my life.
I was one who hated when the law passed, making not wearing seat belts illegal. I truly felt that seat belts could cause death or major injury. This was real to me, because when growing up, I was in a car accident with my sister. She was driving me and my friend to pick up a birthday cake. A Car came out of now where, ran a stop sign and completely removed the front end of the car. She was not wearing a seat belt and was able to jump into the back seat where we were. That saved her, otherwise she would have probably loss her legs or been paralyzed.
Another time, about 15 years ago, she was involved in another accident. Again, not wearing a seat belt, she was broad sided on both sides of her car (a chevette). On one side by a 18 wheel vehicle and the other, a pick up truck. She was just like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, smashed together. Luckily she was not in a seat belt and was able to scoot over to the center of the vehicle. The accident was so bad; they had to get her out of the car with the Jaws of Life. She only had a few bruises and sore bones.
The thing that changed my mind about seat belts happened about 4 months ago. I would never put on a seatbelt, but when listening to my grandson repeat over and over the slogan he had heard on television “click it or ticket”, I appeased him, and for this was the right thing to do.
As I left home one morning, he ran up to me saying “click it or ticket” grandma, I Love You! I put on my seat belt and drove off. Not even 2 blocks away, a speeding car came through the intersection, not stopping for the sign. Guess what? BANG! There I was being hit on the tail end of my car. My car went spinning around in circles, hitting a fire hydrant, and ending ...