European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Letters the stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers seat belts can save lives of moved ones i be been hearing a lot recently about the use of seat Bells. Here s a Story for All of you out there. So you think that mat belts Are confining scat Bells wrinkle your clothes you re Only going to be driving a Short distance and Don t want to take a minute out or your Busy schedule to fasten your scat Bell Well Here s something for you to consider. A few months ago i was driving to Post to do a Little bit of shopping. We Only live 10 Miles away so it s not thai Long a drive. I was forced out of my Lane because the other Driver decided he wanted to drive on my Side of die Road for a while. In avoiding he other car i hit and damaged 11 feet of guard rail and lore up quite a bit of grass and dirt. Plus i totally destroyed my front License plate and the headlight Lai Light and both bumpers will have to be replaced on my car. I had All three of our children Wilh me at the time. It s a Good thing we All had out teat belts on when it happened. Who knows for sure where wed be right now if we did have them on our oldest child is almost 4 years and she s been putting on her own seat Belt for close to a year now. Either i or my husband double Check it to make sure it s completely buckled. Just in Case. Our Middle child is just Over 2 years old. She tries to put her own scat Bell on but can t quite manage it Cyl. At least she s trying. Our youngest child is Only 5 a months old. So she gels buckled up by one of us. In about a year from now Well Stan leaching her How to fasten her own Seal Belt. Parents whenever you put your kids and yourself in your car to go anywhere no matter How Short or Long a distance you la be travelling take the few extra minutes to sit your children Down and fasten their seat Bells. I be done my share of driving pile a few times i be seen children who were standing up in the Back of the car or hanging i hair Heads out the windows. What if you were involved in an Auto Accident do you realize what could happen to your children if they weren t killed How would you like to spend a lot of time by their bedside in a Hospital somewhere How would you feel then every time i think about my recent Accident i get the shakes thinking about Wal would have happened if we had t had our scat belts on. I really Don t think i could live with myself if one of my children would have been killed. Especially knowing that i could have taken those few extra minutes buckling them up before i even started the car. Car manufacturers put those scat belts in inc car for a very Good reason. They re in your car to be used and not just out there for decoration. I m making a special plea As a Mother of three Beautiful Little children to All parents out there. Please make sure you fasten your children s Seal Bells As Well As your own it May just save the life of some one you love. Take my word for in seat belts do work name and location withheld dear Ann Landers i am enclosing a copy of one of your columns Hal gives me a laugh every time i read it. I m sure your readership has in creased enormously since this first appeared. It s a classic please run in again.  dear  i be hid Honda i of requests far i rerun of Fht column. I d pleased out � Rainy Render want to see it Anta. It s one of Ray All tune fit Ort Tea. Reader resents being treated like a child i got a big kick out of the fact that a recent letter hit the paper the Day Afler a certain Beetle Bailey cartoon ran. In the cartoon Gen. Hal track says remember enlisted men always do what they re Lold and officers Are always right. Beetle comments and general always generalize Captain arc you working to make general i agree thai there arc unfortunately a lot of rude self righteous up tight people out there who believe that what they want is right and everyone no Mailer How my existent their ability to do so should a commod Alc them. However these people Are found All Over the world not just in Europe and Are of every nationality. I do inn Der though Al your generalization that All of us in Europe Are childish in that Way. The one generalization Hal you could have made was that we Are All human therefore Al one Lime or another we will revert acl childishly and yes sometimes take out our anger at a policy on the poor clerk who is trying to follow that policy and very often trying to help us get what we want. Would you believe that a very Good percentage of us who do occasionally lose our tempers in that Way regret doing so even More surprising some of us even have inc maturity to apologize and let the clerk cashier Etc. Know Hal our anger is not meant for them personally and we do realize that i hair hands Are lied since your letter referred to inc rest of us As acting childishly i would lend to assume that you feel you do not behave that Way. Under Hal Assumption i would ask you in your maturity to review your letter to the res of us More error prone individuals. Per haps you will see Hal your mature wish to Cornel a wrong could have probably gone Down a Little easier on us if you had appealed to the More mature Side of our natures instead of scolding the child i n us. 1 feel your excellent Point was if nol lost then hidden under your anger however justifiable. Unfortunately your anger came through i Sliu Sikly thai your letter spoke to the child in me rather than the adult and my first response was to gel mad Back at you for having the Gall to condemn me for a tack of control that i usually have All of us children of any age lend to acl up to others expectations of us. Being treated like a child tends to make the child in me come Oul More instead of being suppressed so there lome a Banul Stuttgart Hanau soldiers embarrassed by trash this letter is from the soldiers of the 16th corps support group who pick up the trash that is discarded outside Pioneer Cavern every Day. We Don t pick this stuff up because we have to we do in because we Are embarrassed by what others have done to tarnish the image of the american Soldier. It probably will not Surprise you that what we find Are Budweiser cans pizza and hamburger boxes from inc Burner bar empty Marlboro packs and other All american items. This litter blows All Over the Side walk and Highway and disgraces All of us who have been taught to take Pride in ourselves and our country. It s the Slob who throws this slut on the ground who most Likely complains the loudest during morning policing. Soldiers should not have to pick up other people s trash. As guests of the people in Germany we should respect their country As much As they do. Find a trash can and use it it s easy and it says a lot about whal kind of a person you Are. If everyone does their port maybe police Call will go the Way of the Brown Boot. The men and women of the 16th Csc Huniu West Germany the orig bul letter that started inc con Nolloy came from Render to signed Hlf lady Godert she us Ibe lored to do her Home Ink in the Node and liked if i thought it Wutke or Emmonl. I told her thai so Long u the we Home Ilone with inc drap trin drawn it was perfectly of to do her Hoo work in i Raccoon coat or naked u Jaybird to nobody business. 1 we flooded Wilh letters in response i a Der Codi to s letter. The following were my in Oricht dear Ann Landers Tell lady Godiva she s not crazy. I be been doing my housework in my bin Day suit for 20 years. I con Sider myself Normal and intelligent. As a Bride i was forever sewing torn seams and re id caught on the doot n plopped into the dish a Kin. I removed my House dress and continued to work with nothing on. I thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of Freedom and i be been cleaning House in the nude Ever since. I can report Only one minor mishap. While ironing a bed Sheel i stood Loo close to inc Board and burned my stomach. Experienced in the flesh dear Ann Landers i used to do my housework in the nude but a recent experience cured me. Our Misler expressed the wish to see our new baby. The Lime set for i j visit was 2 . I was fresh out of Coffee Cream and phoned my neighbor to ask if she d bring Over half a cup. She said ill be there in a few  i was Rushing around in the nude trying to get the House tidied up when the Doorbell rang. I grabbed a face Towel to wrap around my Middle so i could reach Oul for the Coffee Cream. I opened the door quickly and shouted boy am i glad to Sec you Honey to my everlasting shame it was the minister. He was so startled his glasses fell off. He mumbled ill be Back Neil week when i can bring my  i slammed the door shut and Sal on the Couch and Shook for 20 minutes. To this Day i m unable to look that minister in the face. Still blushing from Kansas City i wonder if lady Godiva saw the news hem in the paper about an Ohio housewife. She was doing her laundry in the basement and impulsively decided to take off her soiled House dress and throw it into the machine. Her hair had just been set in rollers and the pipes overhead were dripping. 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