Kids in cars

A couple of days ago, as I was walking to my car after work, I saw car pull out of 5 1/2 Alley onto 10th Street. A man was driving. In the other front seat was a woman holding a child of perhaps a year old on her lap.

I'm guessing the car had airbags. I'm also guessing whoever they were watching the baby for, assuming it was not their child, has a safety seat in their car.

After 40 years of warnings on cigarette packs, people still smoke. We still eat too much fatty food (guilty here; it tastes too good, although I've not had a french fry or a potato chip in almost two years). And, apparently, we still ride around in cars with children in our laps instead of in safety seats.

(Sigh).