I'm amazed at how most people don't think about safety at all. I'll say this, being in just one accident will really change the way you look at things. When I was young and dumb (summers in college), I worked on a line crew with the local power company. We were packing up to head back to the barn one afternoon after working on a new distribution line, I hopped on the tongue of a big wire trailer that was attached to the back of a bucket truck. I was gonna catch a quick ride 200yds or so down this dirt road to my pickup. The two lineman in the truck saw me sit there, and told me "don't fall off". I of course responded, "I won't.", and then promptly fell off as the truck approached 20mph or so. The road was a little bumpy and it just bounced me right off the tongue, and the 2 axle wire trailer carrying two almost full reels of wire ran over my left leg and mangled the hell out of it. I was lucky it was just my leg, I could have been killed if it would have run over my upper body instead. Needless to say, since that day I have acquired sort of a sixth sense about unsafe situations. It's the very first thing that I think about now whenever I'm doing something out of the ordinary. Climbing a ladder, climbing a tree while hunting, riding in a boat, etc. If it's not safe, I ain't doing it. Too bad it took an accident to make me see it.
