The Thing That Goes Doink

So the joys of living in a more or less federal government run town means that health and safety is a BIG FLIPPIN' DEAL.  To prove this, we have an annual Health and Safety Expo at the TRAC Center, where several contractors from the Hanford site show off their safe practices, insurance companies sell insurance, and health organizations use scare tactics to get you to become healty. 

Usually there's some interesting booths (the one that puts a lotion on your hands to show germs under black lights is always popular) along with many informational booths with freebies (whoo! massage!) and the ALWAYS DISTURBING car wreck scenario.  With real cars wrecked in drunk driving accidents.  I think the one exception was the year they had the black Camero that the teenaged driver managed to wrap around a tree and kills his two friends by driving too fast.  (The whole story wasn't pretty, kids were thrown even when wearing seat belts, they were literally picking up pieces of the kids from eighty feet away.) 

My husband got two hours off of work to go, and he took me along because he was a Safety Expo virgin and had no idea what he was doing.  I went to my first Safety Expo when I was thirteen or fourteen, and have gone mutliple times in the ten plus years since, so I showed him the good booths.  Most of the good stuff is aimed at the under ten crowd, but there's some interesting stuff to see if you just so happen to be older.  At any rate, it was a nice waste of about an hour and a half.

I just don't feel any safer.  X3

(It's mostly all common sense stuff, so the fact that they have to have this fair EVERY FREAKIN' YEAR to drive the stuff home kind of makes me laugh - and wonder about government employees.)