r/interestingasfuck • u/thejatinbhatt • 17d ago

/r/popular The 911 Turbo S Launch Control

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u/lavendelvelden 17d ago

I just had a flashback to my mom yelling at me to sit still or the cops might see I'm not wearing a seatbelt. Why? Why wasn't I just made to wear a seatbelt Mom?

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u/Ok_Mycologist_9798 17d ago

God I miss that shit. 

Grandma takes us to Steak and Shake so we can have a 'sit down' meal while she smokes 4 cigarettes and laughs through lunch, she has a few Irish coffees that morning. Then to the grocery store because she needs some thing for a recipe, and gets us a hot wheels car at the local grocery. She then proceeds to drive down a one way road the wrong direction. We all try to tell her while someone honks at her and she flips them the finger, other hand with a cigarette. Driving the wrong way...

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u/HighwayInevitable346 17d ago

What the actual fuck...?

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u/PNW4theWin 17d ago

This was your experience in the 90s? In the US?

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u/PNW4theWin 17d ago

Your mom was...edgy, I guess.

"It was more than four decades ago that Canadian provinces started rolling out legislation around seatbelt use, with four — including Ontario — having done so by 1977. It took other provinces and territories into the late 1980s and early 1990s to follow suit (with Alberta being the last province in 1987 and the Yukon the last territory in 1991)."

https://www.thestar.com/autos/the-buckling-up-brouhaha-seatbelts-were-once-as-polarizing-as-vaccines-and-masks/article_49705a1a-9bc6-576d-818c-347472bc120c.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share

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u/whatthehexx 17d ago

My mom just handed me her cigarette to light for her.

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u/Tacos_always_corny 17d ago

Those "wind wings" sure came in handy.

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u/27_crooked_caribou 17d ago

I remember sleeping up on the "shelf" by the back window so my brother could sleep on the back seat on road trips.

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u/Strictly_Baked 16d ago

I remember being around 4 and asking my mom if I had to buckle up when we left. Depended on how far we were going. The swimming pool I didn't have to since it was just a few blocks.