The other day a guy tried to run me off the road. I was driving to work at around 70mph in heavy traffic. A large pickup passes me on the right, and then barrels into my lane with about 3 feet of overlap between our two vehicles. If I hadn’t slammed on the brakes we would have hit. When I laid on the horn he hit the brakes and gave me the finger, so this was no accident. He tried to hit me intentionally.
Why? That was the question I’ve been asking myself. I had been driving in the same lane for several miles, so I hadn’t cut him off by mistake early without realizing it, and I was driving with the flow of traffic. So it wasn’t my driving. It could only be something about me, my car, and him.
Me: a middle aged white guy driving a Prius with a STOP GLOBAL WARMING bumper sticker.
Him: an old white guy in a big pickup.
I can only conclude that he was a psychotic ultra-conservative who hates liberals enough to try to cause an accident with one at 70mph on a busy freeway.
He could have killed somebody, if not me then somebody else. I might have swerved to avoid him and hit somebody in the next lane. If we had collided I might have rolled over – his truck was heavier than my car and I would have been hit in the front.
And this was in northern California – not exactly deep red territory. I just thought I’d share that story.
My only regret is that I didn' take down his license plate and turn him into the police. They might not have been able to do much but I'm guessing this guy has priors and will do something similar in the future.
If Hillary wins, keeps your eyes peeled.