Hannah had physio / PT in Pinelands which is all the way across town - in rush hour traffic. Roland left very early to drop Megan off at school then take Hannah. It worked well because he was on his way to a client in that area anyway. I knew I had to leave by 7:30am at the latest to take the boys to school and get through to Pinelands to fetch Hannah at 8:45. We left home at 7:15am so I stopped nearby to get a take-out coffee.
To get onto the freeway (highway US / motorway UK) I had to turn across the local traffic. I got half way across no problem, then had to wait a bit. Eventually it cleared apart from a car in the further lane, allowing me to turn into the closer one. Luckily as I started to drive, she decided to change lanes without indicating. I saw what she was doing and stopped. She went around and cut infront of me.
As we got into the major intersection ahead, she slammed on brakes. Getting a fright, I did too, so was close behind her. She got out of her car, leaving the driver side door open and walked towards me. Then I noticed a child, roughly 2 years old, STANDING on the FRONT passenger seat. How completely irresponsible!
I opened my window to see what she wanted. Bad move, her language was excrutiating. She screamed and yelled at me, called me every name and four letter word you can think of. I was very calm, said to her that the only problem was that she had changed lanes without indicating.
She lost it completely and started kicking and hitting my car. By this point my 2 little 4 year old boys were distraught. Can you imagine children having to see that?
I am totally, completely gobsmacked!!! I did not realise until that day that there are people in this world that behave like that. I'm just glad she didn't have a hockey stick or baseball bat in her car, then it might've been really nasty!
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That is just horrible. What a witch!!! And to top it off, she was endangering the life of her own child! I hope you are able to put this horrible experience behind you. I can only imagine how scared the boys were. I don't know what I would have done. You never know how crazy some people are (nor whether they have a weapon in their car!!!) Big hug to you.
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