To think they were trying to be imtimidating

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My NDN were travelling behind me in the car tonight, they'll have known it was and they tailgated me close all the way till we got to our driveways. I don't know why and now I feel intimidated by them

Have they ever given you any other reason to believe they may be trying to intimidate you?

If so, well maybe YANBU.

But if not,you really could be reading too much in to it. Some people do drive far too close to the car in front. I am not excusing that at all, but I don't think it is necessarily intended to intimidate.

The people I know who do that, well I think they genuinely over estimate their reactions and their ability to stop in time. Puts me on edge often when I am in the car and sometimes I have to say something. But I am 100% certain they are not doing it to intimidate.

The other week when I got on to my estate I was rushing home and was on auto drive (in my mind- not literally!). It's only when my neighbour slowed right down to park up in their drive did I realise shit I was driving right up their arse! I didn't do it on purpose but was literally on auto drive as it's my estate.

What a strange reaction! Have you previously had a problem with these neighbours? Does your DH work for MI5 or something? If not, it seems a bit of a leap to say that you now feel intimidated by them. Chances are that they're probably just a crap driver, but if you experience this sort of tailgating in future, try lightly touching your brake just enough to make the lights come on, while still keeping your foot on the accelerator, I generally find that this is enough to make people realise that they're driving too closely.

How will they have known it was you?

Do you have a very distinct car such as a Batmobile or a personalised number plate such as NDN 1 ?

What reason would they want to intimidate you whilst risking you slamming in your breaks and they fear ending you and damaging their car?

Have you ever had feelings of paranoia before?

If there was no reason for them to intimidate you, I wouldn't read anything into it. They likely didn't realise it was you. I have no idea even what colour car my neighbours drive. I would only recognise one because his business name is on it. They might just be close drivers. I've noticed people pull over for my DH as he can drive quite close sometimes and it obviously freaks them out but he doesn't mean to.