more than a moving violation.

I know the cop was doing his job, and he was polite, and he warned me for the 9 over.

but I got a ticket for no seatbelt.

Now, I have no trouble with the right kind of restraints. A five point is an excellent idea in any vehicle, and I’d put one in the truck if it was legal, and I’d use it.

I hate seatbelts. I do not drink the koolade that says they save lives. I have yet to see any compelling evidence that they do, that was compiled by independant individuals, on modern vehicles. Each time I have been in an accident I have been harmed more by the seatbelt than by the accident itself.

I also don’t buy that somehow driving with a seatbelt is in any way more dangerous than riding a motorcycle, which is legal. No motorcycle has seatbelts. Driving a motorcycle, like driving a car, is inherently dangerous, and it is predominantly the skill of the driver that mitigates that danger, not spurious ill conceived pseudo safety equipment.

But I can’t fight this, no matter how I try. So after thirty two years of driving predominantly without a seatbelt, I’m going to begin wearing mine, and my rage at this burns with the fury of ten thousand suns. But this isn’t the hill I want to die on, and so I’ll knuckle under to this bullshit and deal, and hope the creeping incrimental bullshit stops there, at least for now.