Malevolent air bags

During our trip to Forster at Easter I read our ford falcon owner’s manual.  Actually, I didn’t read all of it, because I got stuck on the section about the air bag seating and safety restraints.  My first thought was ”Cool, we have airbags.  That means we’ll be safer in an accident, doesn’t it?”  Then I read the following. 

“Never place objects in front of you while you are seated in the front seat as injury may result from the object when it is forced toward you by the inflating air bag.”

All of a sudden I wasn’t thinking about how I would be saved from a messy death by my own personal air bag.  I was worried about having objects forced toward me by the bloody malevolent thing.  What if it inflated accidentally? 

We drove down the coast for a surf at Jones Beach and Port Kembla today.  It’s almost a two hour drive and I can’t keep my bag on my lap, I can’t change CDs properly (imagine if one of those were forced toward you!), and I can’t stretch my legs and put my feet on the dashboard.  At least I can still eat while I’m sitting in the passenger seat… although, I’m not sure if I would have liked the bacon and egg roll I had for lunch today forced toward my face…