RE:helments and safety

["robert and carla lawson" <robandcarla@hotmail.com>]

Okay enuff is enuff here! I was in a bike wreck and I had a crack in my 
motercycle helment, I was also wearing motercycle chaps and jacket.
Both chaps and jacket were shredded beyond repair and the jeans I was 
wearing were ripped from hem to waist along the side.I was a pasenger and 
wellll needless to say bike went on side out comes foot off comes Carla. 
Bike helment saved me even though it was cracked and you could see light 
thru it, it saved me. Now the other big one, picture being wide open with 
horse in a open field and you have ridden this field a gazzilion times... 
yep horse goes end over end my head hits a rock (where the hell did that 
rock come from anyways) the helment well hit in the correct way will break 
but it still saved my head. There is nothing more safe than a helment. But 
like most folks yes I have been negligent to wear it even after I have had 
accidents. Qhat rolled through my mind when my husband took his fall at 
Bankhead.... Why the heck didn't I get him a helment? fortunately my Soul 
mate didn't fall badly the horse just stumbled and didn't recover and hubby 
bailed.
So guess who is going to go get a brand new helment to wear??? Yep you 
guessed it!!!
  As far as breast collars and crupers... If a ride manager reccomends you 
or horse wearing pads or the such come prepared or quit yapping your gums!! 
you were warned!! I heard so many gripes over "if I had known there were so 
many rocks I would have never come." *G* Maybe ride managers when sending 
out the paper work should enclose an actual rock from the ride itself. AHHH 
that feels so much better now!!!!!
Carla( wondering if hot pink will go with my hunter green pad and hotpink 
breastcollar)&
Baru (what the hell is that pink thing on her head?? sheeesh is she 
colorblind?? green,pink and black don't go!!!!)


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