I’ve just got home after a bit of a scary experience and am a bit freaked out so would value your opinions.
I live rurally and I live alone for sad reasons I won’t go into. Well I say alone, I have a lovely and massive ddog so it just me and him.
I just drove out to the nearest open shop which is about 15 mins way. I take the windy and isolated country lanes route because it’s beautiful round here and if I’m lucky I might see an owl, pheasant or deer.
As I was coming back through the lanes just now, fully in the dark and barely any other cars usually, there was a car following behind me. I went on for a while then pulled over into a passing spot to let them through so I could go on at lowish speed (30mph) without lights up my backside and keep an eye out for wildlife. The other car passed me.
I carried on then 100m later on the same car was pulled over into the next passing spot in the lane so I drove past and carried on. Other car then pulled out and followed behind me.
This is starting to freak me out as I’m in the middle of nowhere without ddog and they seem to be playing silly buggers. So I put my foot down along a straight stretch, and so do they, so I think they’re definitely following me.
I decide I’m not having it and not being intimidated by an arsehole behind me, so I pull over at the next passing spot for them to go past. And they stop in the road and wait about 50m behind me. I wait 5 mins and so do they
I’m a bit scared now. Why the hell are they following and then loitering behind in this isolated spot?? I pull out abruptly and do a straight stretch, they bloody well follow, so I do to a do a v sharp u turn/ reverse at the next turning so I am then back turning right towards them at the little junction iyswim (no I cannot do a diagram I’m afraid, don’t know how that all works!!)
Anyway, when I did my almost handbrake turn and was going to turn back towards them they drove up to me at the junction to block my right hand turn. I wound my window down a bit and said what the f is your problem? I am thoroughly freaked out at this point. It’s a bearded guy alone in the car who says through his wound down window “wait there, I want word with you”.
I am not bloody well waiting there. I immediately pull forward and round him, scraping the he’ll out of my car in the hedge I drove into to do o, and then I sped off down the lane fr too fast me terrified of see his headlights behind me.
WHAT THE HELL??!! Did I over-react? I was really scared. Surely if it was police or something and they’d had a legitimate reason they’d have said so?? (It was a dark escort type car, one driver with mobile on a mount).
What do you think that was all about? Usually I feel confident and secure, but I like I said I live alone and this happened not far from my house so I’m a bit perturbed. Am I just being paranoid or is a bit scary?