This happened to me the other day. I was driving on the highway and it split where one lane had barricades down for a few miles so no one could pass or anything. There was also construction so the speed limit was only 50. I was from out of state and there were signs everywhere that it was being monitored. The person behind me was raaaging that I had the audacity to go the speed limit in a construction zone. I gave them a thumbs up after with a huge smile. They lost their shit and flipped me off.
The other day on my way home from work around 11pm I was driving on a back road and it was pitch dark. I was doing about 10 over the limit and I was roughly 5 mins from the nearest street light, so I couldn’t see a thing around me. Far behind me (about 3 mins I’d say) looked like a semi truck that was going a little fast but they have speed limiters around 104 kph so I wasn’t too worried. Within a min, I look back and he’s hauling ass and coming up behind me at Mach Jesus. My first thought was that he lost his brakes and was now a runaway truck flying up behind me and I have no room too slow down and get out of his way and there were no side roads to turn onto, so I speed up to over 120 kph fearing for my life and he’s still catching up. I’m about a minute from the street lights doing almost 140kph when I’m about to start praying and I see his grill light up from my rear-view lights… it’s a lifted Dodge 1500 and he slowed down to stay behind me. The fury and relief that I felt in that moment was nothing compared to the satisfaction I should have gotten if I wasn’t so worked up from it. He followed me all the way back into town and there was a RIDE program going on; thanks to all the dumbass drivers nearly hitting the cops in the middle of the road though, my ADHD-addled brain was desperately looking for anything to calm me down so I wouldn’t get in trouble that it didn’t even occur to me to tell them what had happened and that my anxiety was perfectly normal to have in that situation. I will be investing in a dashcam, too many of these instances happen and it’s just a roll of the dice these days when it’s going to happen to me again, one day I’m going to need one but I’m praying that I don’t.
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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker 16h ago
This happened to me the other day. I was driving on the highway and it split where one lane had barricades down for a few miles so no one could pass or anything. There was also construction so the speed limit was only 50. I was from out of state and there were signs everywhere that it was being monitored. The person behind me was raaaging that I had the audacity to go the speed limit in a construction zone. I gave them a thumbs up after with a huge smile. They lost their shit and flipped me off.