First, worst story - dead children
A dad in the USA left his children behind in a car instead of taking them to a day care center and they died. What can you do to prevent that happening to your children or pets?
I wrote on Facebook:
Recorded message when you switch off engine and open car door. For example, 'please check car for valuables including children and pets'.
'Look back before you leave,' like the British, 'look right, left, right again,'reminder for road safety, taught to schoolchildren.
Two baby shoes on front passenger seat as a reminder to check for baby.
Message mum to say where babies are.
Set yourself an alarm to remind yourself to deliver the baby or pet, or check it has been done.
Daycare centers to call both Mum and Dad on an automatic dial system when babies are not delivered and checked in.
Second Worst Story - Dead pets
Worst case scenario, dead pet.
Second worst case scenario, somebody breaks your car window to rescue your pet.
Third Preventable Problem - Exploding Fizzy drinks
All sorts of things can be left in cars which are hot or cold.
When I was living in the USA, we left coke cans in the boot of the car. (Americans call the boot the trunk.)
The cans of coke exploded and made a dreadful mess.
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Fourth Preventable Problem - Melting Food
In Europe, in France, I left bars of chocolate on the back window shelf.
I returned to find empty packets.
A dad in the USA left his children behind in a car instead of taking them to a day care center and they died. What can you do to prevent that happening to your children or pets?
I wrote on Facebook:
Recorded message when you switch off engine and open car door. For example, 'please check car for valuables including children and pets'.
'Look back before you leave,' like the British, 'look right, left, right again,'reminder for road safety, taught to schoolchildren.
Two baby shoes on front passenger seat as a reminder to check for baby.
Message mum to say where babies are.
Set yourself an alarm to remind yourself to deliver the baby or pet, or check it has been done.
Daycare centers to call both Mum and Dad on an automatic dial system when babies are not delivered and checked in.
Worst case scenario, dead pet.
Second worst case scenario, somebody breaks your car window to rescue your pet.
Third Preventable Problem - Exploding Fizzy drinks
All sorts of things can be left in cars which are hot or cold.
When I was living in the USA, we left coke cans in the boot of the car. (Americans call the boot the trunk.)
The cans of coke exploded and made a dreadful mess.
👀
Fourth Preventable Problem - Melting Food
In Europe, in France, I left bars of chocolate on the back window shelf.
I returned to find empty packets.
I demanded of my family, "Who has eaten all the chocolate. Two whole bars!"
Husband, "not guilty."
Child, "not me."
Then I found a flattened wafer of sticky chocolate under the wrapper. Melted in the mid-day sun.
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Fifth Preventable Problem
Mouldy Litter
Go to a drive-in. Buy a takeaway meal. You should get rid of all the wrappers and apple cores etc in a bin as you drive away, or when you leave the car.
A day later, or a week later, you might open the door and find it is full of a dreadful smell. Leftovers in a box stuffed under the seat. Undiscovered for a week. Yuk.
Cars get hot and cold. Don't leave any of these:
1 Children
2 Pets
3 Food
4 Drinks
5 Wrappers and leftovers from take away food.
Clear the car. Check the car.
What else?
Driver - Look on top before you drive off. Your wallet? Your shopping.
Look behind before you drive off. From a supermarket, your last bag of shopping. The shopping trolley you are about to back into.
The bollard. Crunch! What was that?
That's happened to us a few times.
Look in the back seat before you drive off.
Check you have the address and phone number of your destination before you drive off. We drove to Hampstead in London to visit our friends from Singapore. Got there, both assuming the other had the address. Maybe we could recognize the door. A long road, with multiple occupancy. Names might be landlord and not temporary tenant. Waste of time. Missed diner.
Check the drive is clear before you turn in. If you can't see, drive slowly and hoot quietly.
Do not drive backwards nor forwards when anybody is behind or in front of the car. You could go backwards or forwards by mistake.
What will I talk about at Toastmasters tonight? My last meeting as President. Something more cheerful.
Useful Websites On Car Safety Systems
https://sea.mashable.com/tech/5580/high-tech-alarms-go-off-when-kids-are-left-in-hot-cars
https://www.fatherly.com/gear/best-car-seat-alarms/
https://www.mother.ly/news/best-car-seat-sensor-app/waze
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
learncool.sgOr quicker to type and easier to remember:
tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_self-study_programs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity
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Fifth Preventable Problem
Mouldy Litter
Go to a drive-in. Buy a takeaway meal. You should get rid of all the wrappers and apple cores etc in a bin as you drive away, or when you leave the car.
A day later, or a week later, you might open the door and find it is full of a dreadful smell. Leftovers in a box stuffed under the seat. Undiscovered for a week. Yuk.
Cars get hot and cold. Don't leave any of these:
1 Children
2 Pets
3 Food
4 Drinks
5 Wrappers and leftovers from take away food.
Clear the car. Check the car.
What else?
Driver - Look on top before you drive off. Your wallet? Your shopping.
Look behind before you drive off. From a supermarket, your last bag of shopping. The shopping trolley you are about to back into.
The bollard. Crunch! What was that?
That's happened to us a few times.
Look in the back seat before you drive off.
Check you have the address and phone number of your destination before you drive off. We drove to Hampstead in London to visit our friends from Singapore. Got there, both assuming the other had the address. Maybe we could recognize the door. A long road, with multiple occupancy. Names might be landlord and not temporary tenant. Waste of time. Missed diner.
Check the drive is clear before you turn in. If you can't see, drive slowly and hoot quietly.
Do not drive backwards nor forwards when anybody is behind or in front of the car. You could go backwards or forwards by mistake.
What will I talk about at Toastmasters tonight? My last meeting as President. Something more cheerful.
Useful Websites On Car Safety Systems
https://sea.mashable.com/tech/5580/high-tech-alarms-go-off-when-kids-are-left-in-hot-cars
https://www.fatherly.com/gear/best-car-seat-alarms/
https://www.mother.ly/news/best-car-seat-sensor-app/waze
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app
Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
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