Think Safety

This is such an important topic for young people. Safety was never really taught or talked about when I was growing up. Mom and Dad said "Don't talk to strangers" but really never anything else. I am not sure if its because we lived in a different time but I feel it is a very important subject to be discussed. There are so many crazy people out there who are doing stupid stuff to get their name on Instagram, FB or whatever Social Media they can think of. I will discuss several safety topics for you to think about.

1) Travel Safety - You need to always be on the watch when you are traveling. It used to be safety in numbers but that isn't the case anymore. Below I have listed some do's and don'ts for travelling. Let me tell you about two stories that affected my travel life greatly. First, was Germany early 1990's. We were all at a NAB show outside of Munich. We did the show and that night went to dinner at a quaint restaurant which was very crowded. There was 10 of us, Wendy our Marketing Director had about $10,000 of cash on her but for some reason I was the one that got all the robbers attention. The police thinks its because I paid the bill with a Black American Express card and they thought I had a lot of money. Go figure? So everyone was going to go out bar hopping but I was tired so I took one of the rental cars back to the hotel. The gang took the bigger one and went out. So off I go after paying the hotel bill to the back parking lot. Four guys followed me outside and when I got to the car they robbed me at gunpoint. When I only less than $100 cash they decided to beat the pulp out of me. It was an awful experience and I ended up in the hospital for 3 months.

The other story takes us to Las Vegas April of 1992 and we were out there for CES show. There were 8 of us going out to dinner near the MGM Grand Hotel and were walking on the side walk. A drunken man driving a truck decided to take out a few people by driving on the sidewalk. Three people ended up dying and one of our salespeople ended up in the hospital for four months out there. 

I am telling you these stories to make you realize that you always need to be aware of the people and situations happening around you. After that accident the owner of the company brought in an expert to "clue" us in on how to travel safely without staying in our rooms that whole entire time.

2) Driving safety -