Ladies, How Comfortable Is Your Car Seat Belt

I watched with pity as this lady was struggling with her car seat belt trying to pass it through the 'valley' but inevitably crushing on those massive but delicate organs; the expression on her face spelt discomfort. I felt for her.
This often is the case when the lady behind the wheel is well endowed upfront or worse still, visibly pregnant.
But then the law says you must fasten your seat belt before setting your car on motion.

Ladies, how comfortable is your car seat belt and what do you do in cases of discomfort.

Let's hear you.

what? you don't use the car seat belt??  life is precious my sister.

the car seat belt can be adjusted to fit. everyone driving a car should use seat belt.

A friend once said most vehicle, especially commercials on Nigeria roads have no seat belt and to avoid been booked by the authority, they now resorted to using any type of rope for that matter as seat belts; including 'meee' rope and the rope used in getting water from the well. I guess my friend was just trying to be funny but in case this is true, don't you think the above described scenario will be more pathetic in Nigeria with all the improvised seat belts?

The vast majority of Nigerian road users see seatbelts as a fashion statement rather than a safety feature, and motorists seen wearing seat belts are often ridiculed for trying to show off and behave like a "white person".

Another reason that seatbelts and baby car seats are very rarely used in Nigeria is the widely held superstitious belief that bad things only befall people who anticipate misfortune.  With this uniquely Nigerian mentality, wearing a seat belt is deemed to be indicative of a pessimistic and cowardly outlook on life that can never be as effective as simply muttering a prayer or pocketing a juju fetish item before getting into a rickety vehicle.    "God forbids bad things" has always been the ubiquitous Nigerian substitute for preventive safety measures on or off the highway.

Many commercial vehicle drivers in Nigeria believe that the possession of a few smoke-dried animal parts tied to the rear-view mirror will provide magical protection from kamikaze reckless driving and potential road calamities that is far more effective that the injury-preventive capacity of seat belts or air-bags.     Thus it is fairly routine for commercial drivers to simply take a knife and cut off the seat-belts in newly purchased vehicles.  That widespread removal of vehicle seat-belts in Nigeria is the reason that lengths of rope and string are used as decoy seat-belts to satisfy government seat-belt inspectors in areas of Nigeria where seat-belt laws have been ( half-heartedly) introduced.  The number of accident victims that have simply been cut in half by those ropes is anybody's guess.

Not surprisingly, Nigeria's  Lagos Expressway did for a number of years earn an honorable mention in the Guinness Book of Records as the one stretch of highway that records the highest number of vehicle accident mortalities per mile, in comparison to any other highway in the world.  Ignorance is not always bliss.