turbojimmy
Supporting Member
- Joined
- May 26, 2001
So I was on my way home from a local street fair kind of thing. I had the whole family in the minivan. I was cruising along in the right lane for miles. I needed to exit left so about a mile before the split I started looking for a hole. Traffic in the left lane was tight, but there was a gap next to me. It was admittedly not a big gap, but enough to put my van into. I signaled and the woman in the left lane floored it to close the hole. As I'm changing lanes I notice this and say f*** it, if I don't take it I'm going to have to drive around half the county to get back home. She honks like a lunatic and gestures angrily.
I take the exit, so does she. I turn onto the mountain road that leads to my neighborhood. So does she. I turn into my neighborhood, so does she. Now it's not totally impossible that she lives in my 'hood but rather than take any chances I continued through the 'hood and across the mountain. She follows. I cut through another hood, drove around in circles and then headed back down the mountain road that we had previously come up. She follows. If I didn't have the family in the van I'd have led her to a dead end and forced her hand. But I did, so I kept driving - right to the local police station. She pulled in behind me. I parked right outside the barracks where the cops come and go. She blocks me in.
She calmly removed her sunglasses, exited the car and walked up to my window. I had all the windows down, exposing my kids, which in retrospect was not smart. The conversation goes like this (note that both her eyelids are twitching and she's speaking to me through clenched teeth):
Her: "What was that about back there?"
Me: (acting surprised): "What do you mean?"
Her: "You cutting me off - what was that about?"
Me: (I decided not to call her on her closing-the-gap) "I didn't see you, I'm sorry."
Her: (raising her voice) "Did you even look?! There's no blind spot on this thing!!! I was next to you for miles!!! Don't you look....(etc. and so on).
I stared at her for a few seconds and finally said "I don't know what to tell you, lady."
She was clearly exasperated and blurted out "I'm going to call the cops". I said "knock yourself out - we're already here". She pauses and says "I know that!". She then got into her car and left, but not after looking at my son and then back at me in a strange way.
I waited for her to get far away and then left the police station. I didn't call the police but I'm thinking I should have. She's definitely a psycho but I'm not sure she'd come looking for me, but on the other hand she did follow me in circles for miles and miles.
Should I call the cops? I have her description and tags.
Jim
I take the exit, so does she. I turn onto the mountain road that leads to my neighborhood. So does she. I turn into my neighborhood, so does she. Now it's not totally impossible that she lives in my 'hood but rather than take any chances I continued through the 'hood and across the mountain. She follows. I cut through another hood, drove around in circles and then headed back down the mountain road that we had previously come up. She follows. If I didn't have the family in the van I'd have led her to a dead end and forced her hand. But I did, so I kept driving - right to the local police station. She pulled in behind me. I parked right outside the barracks where the cops come and go. She blocks me in.
She calmly removed her sunglasses, exited the car and walked up to my window. I had all the windows down, exposing my kids, which in retrospect was not smart. The conversation goes like this (note that both her eyelids are twitching and she's speaking to me through clenched teeth):
Her: "What was that about back there?"
Me: (acting surprised): "What do you mean?"
Her: "You cutting me off - what was that about?"
Me: (I decided not to call her on her closing-the-gap) "I didn't see you, I'm sorry."
Her: (raising her voice) "Did you even look?! There's no blind spot on this thing!!! I was next to you for miles!!! Don't you look....(etc. and so on).
I stared at her for a few seconds and finally said "I don't know what to tell you, lady."
She was clearly exasperated and blurted out "I'm going to call the cops". I said "knock yourself out - we're already here". She pauses and says "I know that!". She then got into her car and left, but not after looking at my son and then back at me in a strange way.
I waited for her to get far away and then left the police station. I didn't call the police but I'm thinking I should have. She's definitely a psycho but I'm not sure she'd come looking for me, but on the other hand she did follow me in circles for miles and miles.
Should I call the cops? I have her description and tags.
Jim
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