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» Monday, August 20, 2007
One Good Reason for Telecommuting
I got "rear-ended" tonight on Spring Road. It's in quotes because I didn't get hit very hard and there are just a few white paint marks on the right side of my rear bumper. Everyone stopped short in front of me and I managed to stop safely, but the guy behind me didn't. He didn't have any damage either, so we just shrugged and went on our way. But this is the third time in three years that car has been hit. Of course the first time was the worst, two months after I bought it when I was T-boned on the driver's side on the way to work, $12,000 damage. The car was barely finished when we drove it up to my mom's two months later and there was another sudden stop on the Connecticut Turnpike and someone whacked the rear bumper—have a dent in my license plate and a crack in the right backup light. Luckily Chrysler makes good bumpers! ----------------------------------------------------------------
. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 11:11:00 PM 
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Glad you're okay! I've been rear ended a few times myself.
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You might want to try the three-second rule, like I do now. If the car ahead of you passes an object, and you can't go "Thousand and one, thousand and two, thousand and three" before you pass that object, you're getting a trifle too close. This gives you room to brake safely if the fool in front of you whacks the car in front of him. And sadly, we're not as young as we used to be (Though you're going to be a 'Young' for the rest of your life! (grin)) and our reaction times aren't quite what they could be. Dropping back a bit is sensible. So someone might get ticked because there's actually room between you and the car ahead of you. You don't get points for following closely - you get your points from arriving in one piece and unhit! (And you know all this. Okay, I'll put away the soapbox now. I'm really, really glad you're okay.) Jerry # posted by
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