To worry about this - driving interaction

[worrywarry]

We were further up on our estate, DH driving, lots of parked cars down the other side. DH had right of way. Another car trying to make its way up went to stop, then continued driving and stopped in the middle of the road so there wasn’t room for DH (who was already coming) to pass. DH had nowhere to go but the other car had a gap between parked cars that it could’ve reasonably pulled into. It half pulled into this gap and then waited, still blocking the road off with its rear end. DH gestured for them to drive into the rest of the gap and mouthed there’s space, the other driver threw their hands up very aggressively, swore and stared right in at us.

They stayed there further up on the road presumably watching us in their rear view mirror reverse into our driveway, before driving on themselves. We didn’t recognise who it was, but we live at the entrance to a long estate so probably someone much further up.

I’m worried now that they know where we live and they might be the type of person to come and puncture tyres or cause damage to the house/car.

We do have a ring doorbell and next door neighbours have CCTV, so surely this would be a deterrent if they did have those intentions

DH thinks I’m overthinking and that could happen anywhere. I’m worrying about it, but that does seem to be a theme atm (final stages of pregnancy and I just want to be in a bit of a peaceful bubble!)

AIBU to worry?

Relax. It’s an egotistical person who wanted the ease of you moving. See it daily. Probably drives number to bumper if they see someone signalling just to be petty.

That’s true. I don’t know why it’s worried me so much.

Hopefully just the hormones and keeping your precious little baby safe 🤍
I feel that sometimes the way a person presents themselves gives you a bad feeling too. Just avoid them in future. If you spot them completely ignore them and don’t make eye contact

It's easy to overthink it. A lot of people will act like that within the safety and anonymity of their box but not outside of it, particularly after having a minute to cool down.

Our street has room for traffic in one direction most of the time due to parked cars. If you're unable to get out of the way you pretty much have the right of way. Much like your situation one time guy drove right towards me when I had nowhere else to go and he could have waited. Instead he left a tiny gap for us both to squeeze through.

He was shaking his head, I beeped my horn, he jumped out of his car and started hopping up and down, I chuckled to myself as he got smaller and smaller in my rear view mirror, still hopping around like he was in the Beano.

This was obviously an egotist who felt safe in their little steel box to try and be intimidating. I had a woman do something similar to me a few years ago after she nearly smashed into my car on a blind corner. I ignored her and drove on and then at an extremely busy junction, she pulled up next to me and began beeping her horn and mouthing threats at me ....... until I took my seatbelt off and opened my door and she then shot off.

People like this are pathetic and actually afraid of confrontation - this idiot wanted to intimidate you.