Add Using Seatbelts to the List of Things Mississippi is Worst At

Name a skill or measurable trait and, chances are, Mississippi residents clock in as the worst in the nation. Reading, math, open mindedness, race relations... You name it.

Well, now we can add Seatbelt Use to the list of things "Rebels" down in the Magnolia State fail miserably at - With residents of Good 'Ole Mississip using seat belts less than folks in any other state.

Transportation officials say Mississippi's safety belt use of just over 60% is pitiful, though in the residents' defense, there's really no need to buckle up if you've got nothing to live for.

Americans call Mississippians "Real-life crash-test dummies".

Stay at Home Moms Earn Less Than Stay At Home Dads

A new Salary.com study says "stay-at-home moms" would earn nearly $117,000* if they were actually paid for all the work they do.

One "stay-at-home mom" from Marietta, Georgia, said the figure sounded a tad low.

But then again, what does she know? It's not like she's out there in the real world, fighting rush hour traffic twice a day, dealing with annoying coworkers, bending over backwards to placate an impossible boss and doing "actual" work.

The biggest driver of a mom's theoretical salary is the amount of overtime pay she'd receive as, evidently, going to the playground several times a week can really take up a great deal of a "stay-at-home mom's" time - Sometimes upwards of 90 minutes a day playing in the sandbox and riding the swings.

"Seriously," said Janis Simon a "stay-at-home mother" of two in Los Angeles, "You don't think I could watch my soaps, read my magazines AND go to the playground once a day in a 40-hour week, Do you?"

"Stay-at-home mom" Janis Simon visits
a local park with her son or daughter.

Doug Soller, a working father from Nutley, New Jersey said, "This is some kinda joke, right? You mean to tell me I could make $117,000 sitting on my ass all afternon and watching Oprah? Where do I sign up?"

What the angry Mr. Soller fails to understand is that, if a stay-at-home mom can earn $117,000 it's safe to assume that "stay-at-home dads" would make well over 200 grand - For the EXACT same work.


*PLEASE NOTE: It is implied that the "stay-at-home mom" is in America legally. If said mom is an alien, she'd earn about $19,000 annually for the same work done by a U.S. Citizen mom.