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Last night I was followed home (road rage incident) aibu to be so angry

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DianneWhatcock · 04/03/2020 18:01

Driving home with my little DD last night (it was dark) , five minutes from home, suddenly someone appeared behind me then proceeded to tailgate me all the way to my home, honking his horn and flashing his lights clearly trying to intimidate me

(I have racked my brains since and As far as I am aware I did nothing wrong. I have been driving 20 years, never had an accident or even near miss, I am basically a sensible woman in a sensible car. But actually there is no excuse imo for doing what he did)

After a short time, I realised he was actually following me. I was panicking like mad and all I could think of was to drive home. In hindsight maybe should have driven a different way and just tried to lose him I suppose but I wasn't thinking. And then when I pulled up outside my home he pulled up parallel to me, wound his window down and started yelling abuse at me. I grabbed DD and just ran to my front door shouting for H who came out to see what was going on

As soon as he saw DH he drove off however my road is a dead end so he had to turn around at the end and to drive past DH which he did at high speed

I am so angry that someone is that much of a vile aggressive bully that they would actually do such a thing, and to a woman and a child. also I didn't think or have time to get his reg plate so I haven't even been able to report it

I hope if he tries it again he picks on the wrong person and ends up flattened by some psycho. I have ordered a dashcam now I wish to god I already had one. I have been anxious and uneasy since it happened. I mean anything could have happend. And now he knows where I live.

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NigellaAwesome · 08/03/2020 21:03

@UYScuti, strangely enough, my namesake had a very public incident with the same man and his aggression.

SuperficialSuzie · 08/03/2020 21:40

So many arsehole bullying men around Angry who will vent their misplaced fury on someone they see as weaker than them.

The other day a woman had broken down which was causing a bit of a tailback in our rat run village. The car bonnet was up and she was standing on the pavement with her young kids.

Some knobhead in the traffic jam decided to start racially abusing her, she explained that she had broken down, and would he please stop using such language in front of her kids.

He then got out of his car and started to walk towards her screaming and shouting.

What knobhead didn't realise was that my 6'4" DS was under the car trying to fix it for her, so when DS heard the commotion and stood up and told knobhead to back off he became incredibly sheepish, apologised and ran back to his car.

There is something about being in a car that turns some men angry.

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