# Stop messing with my road. **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [April 17, 2016, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/stop-messing-with-my-road/2111 "2016-04-17T08:23:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/stop-messing-with-my-road/2111/1 "2016-04-17T08:23:21Z")
Is there a way to make Beeminder not change the road **at all** even when I derail? ---
**Author:** ![apolyton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apolyton/32/1965_2.png) [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/stop-messing-with-my-road/2111/2 "2016-04-17T17:33:41Z")
How does it look like if you retrorachet with a zero days buffer? ---
**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/stop-messing-with-my-road/2111/3 "2016-04-17T18:39:42Z")
It instaderailed me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/stop-messing-with-my-road/2111/4 "2016-04-17T18:40:33Z")
Yeah you can’t retroratchet right after a derail or you’ll derail. 🙂 I would also find this useful for my goal [https://www.beeminder.com/drtall/beelint](https://www.beeminder.com/drtall/beelint) which ought to have its critical edge at exactly 0 at all times forever. Today I have to futz with Take a Break after a derail. ---
**Author:** ![apolyton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apolyton/32/1965_2.png) [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/stop-messing-with-my-road/2111/5 "2016-04-17T18:54:31Z")
If you are a premium member, when you know you’re going to derail, you can change the “Abs lane width” setting (giving yourself a 1 day buffer) and put the amount of the pledge in a jar (or mail a check to @dreev :)) ---
**Author:** ![scarabaea](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/scarabaea/32/5475_2.png) [@scarabaea](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/scarabaea)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/stop-messing-with-my-road/2111/6 "2016-04-18T06:40:44Z")
I also have a goal I would prefer having as a straight line despite occasional derailments (for statistics, etc). What I usually do after a derailment, is waiting until the day I am in the place where the road would be if it was not for the jump after derailment, and retroratchet it on that day. I am not sure it works equally neat on do-more goals, but on do-less it is pretty neat. For example, I have a rate of 1 a week, and historically it is so that this next “1” is replenished on Saturday. Occasionally, I use it up earlier during the week, derail and have the road jump… but then on Saturday, I retroratchet with “0” and have the road back where it should have been. The odd segment remains there of course, but the road is in its original place as least.