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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Dear Drivers who insist on riding on my a$$:
You are doing nothing except creating a dangerous situation on the road, and tick me off. Nothing else. You riding my butt does not make me go faster.
You need to understand that there are a number of reasons I might be going slower than you are:
#1 - the person in front of me has out-of-state plates, clearly doesn't know where they are going, and is going really slowly themselves (as was the case this morning)
#2 - maybe I am not familiar with the area and am trying to find my way
#3 - maybe I'm already going the speed limit (or higher) and you just need to slow yourself down
When I see you closing in on my rear bumper, my initial reaction is to slow down even more. Why, you ask? Because if you refuse to maintain a safe distance behind me for the speed we are going, then my only choice is to go even slower to try to balance my speed out with how close you have chosen to be to my a$$. If you are fine with continuing on your journey going 10 mph, then that's fine with me. I don't have anywhere to go that is worth my (or your) life. If you won't be safe, I will.
BTW - following too closely is a ticketable offense. I have actually (to my delight) come around a corner with one of you on my butt to find a police car. And yes, he did pull over the car that was tailgating me. Since we obviously weren't speeding, I am left to assume that they got pulled over for following too closely. And I laughed my butt off.
So STOP IT. It accomplishes NOTHING. You create an unsafe situation for yourself and others. So just freakin' STOP!
Thank you, and have a nice day.
You need to understand that there are a number of reasons I might be going slower than you are:
#1 - the person in front of me has out-of-state plates, clearly doesn't know where they are going, and is going really slowly themselves (as was the case this morning)
#2 - maybe I am not familiar with the area and am trying to find my way
#3 - maybe I'm already going the speed limit (or higher) and you just need to slow yourself down
When I see you closing in on my rear bumper, my initial reaction is to slow down even more. Why, you ask? Because if you refuse to maintain a safe distance behind me for the speed we are going, then my only choice is to go even slower to try to balance my speed out with how close you have chosen to be to my a$$. If you are fine with continuing on your journey going 10 mph, then that's fine with me. I don't have anywhere to go that is worth my (or your) life. If you won't be safe, I will.
BTW - following too closely is a ticketable offense. I have actually (to my delight) come around a corner with one of you on my butt to find a police car. And yes, he did pull over the car that was tailgating me. Since we obviously weren't speeding, I am left to assume that they got pulled over for following too closely. And I laughed my butt off.
So STOP IT. It accomplishes NOTHING. You create an unsafe situation for yourself and others. So just freakin' STOP!
Thank you, and have a nice day.
Re: Dear Drivers who insist on riding on my a$$:
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I'm excited to hear of someone getting stopped for this (we can certainly hope that's what it was for!). This is one of my biggest pet peeves as well!
Side story: Years ago I was driving across Indiana...one lane of the highway was closed for construction (for many miles), which meant we all had to drive single file. I insisted on travelling the reduced speed limit (no way am I going to pay the doubled fines for construction zone violations) and the guy behind me was flashing his lights and giving me rude gestures, he even tried to pass me in the shoulder. DH says I shouldn't have provoked him (this was before we met), but I say the other guy needs to chill out and accept that safety is more important than speed.
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