I just have to share with people who get it.
Yesterday we were out at a bunch of garage sales and one was selling some carseats. I still don't know as much as I would like about seats so at first I didn't say anything (although I still know heaps more that 99% of the people out there). Then an older lady was looking at them and asked if they were still good. The lady having the sale had no idea.
I said that there should be a date of manufacture on them, and then they are generally good for 6 years but she would have to check the manual. She looked and they were 2003s. The older lady says "well that doesn't mean they are no good, you just have to get them inspected." I said no, if they were expired they were no good, that they could fail in a crash and the harness could pull right out of them.
The selling lady asked me what the difference was and said that if she had another kid she would go ahead and use it. I said no, it was unsafe, and she would need to get a new one.
Throughout all this everyone was looking at me like I had three heads.
Then some other lady comes up and says "I don't see what the big deal is, plastic lasts a long time. Slides are made of plastic, and they last 20 years."
My head nearly exploded. I said "Yeah, but you don't get in 100km/hr collisions on a SLIDE."
Seriously. How do you deal with this kind of ignorance? I ended up just leaving because I couldn't handle it anymore.
Yesterday we were out at a bunch of garage sales and one was selling some carseats. I still don't know as much as I would like about seats so at first I didn't say anything (although I still know heaps more that 99% of the people out there). Then an older lady was looking at them and asked if they were still good. The lady having the sale had no idea.
I said that there should be a date of manufacture on them, and then they are generally good for 6 years but she would have to check the manual. She looked and they were 2003s. The older lady says "well that doesn't mean they are no good, you just have to get them inspected." I said no, if they were expired they were no good, that they could fail in a crash and the harness could pull right out of them.
The selling lady asked me what the difference was and said that if she had another kid she would go ahead and use it. I said no, it was unsafe, and she would need to get a new one.
Throughout all this everyone was looking at me like I had three heads.
Then some other lady comes up and says "I don't see what the big deal is, plastic lasts a long time. Slides are made of plastic, and they last 20 years."
My head nearly exploded. I said "Yeah, but you don't get in 100km/hr collisions on a SLIDE."
Seriously. How do you deal with this kind of ignorance? I ended up just leaving because I couldn't handle it anymore.