People With Road Rage

As most of you who read this will be able to tell this is going to be my opinion piece for this week. This is about people with road rage.



I was coming home from work the other night, on 171 and I was in the passing lane going 75 mph. This freak came out of nowhere got on my bumper and was not backing off. Well the problem with that was there was a car next to me in the right hand lane so I had no where to go. Well I was already going 75 and I was not going to speed up even faster just to get over. So, after about 5 miles of this persons crap, The car that was in the right hand lane slowed down just enough so that I could get over. Well, at least that is what I thought. Before I could get over the car behind me got over so I just stayed where I was. My thought was so that whoever it was would get away from me. Well little did I know that was not the case.



This crazy lunatic came inches from my car I had to slam on my brakes, which at 75 mph you can imagine is not pleasant, just so they wouldn't hit me. Then to just to be a witch, this person slows way down and stays right in front of me. It was like I had a stalker on the highway. If I got over they got over, if I put on my turn signal to take an exit ramp they did.



Talk about a freak behind the wheel. I finally said enough was enough and called 911 from my cell phone. (If you ever have to do this good luck!) The only thing they said was that they would send someone looking for them and see if they were driving irratically. Which by the time I got off the phone with them I was entering Carthage city limits.



This person finally turned the opposite way but I could not believe that this had happened. I am still trying to figure out why they tried to hit me. I would have understood if I would have been driving slow or something but I was already speeding. I can not help it if I go to pass someone and they speed up.



My therory on this is that they should have more cops patroling the highways. Someone like that is why people get killed in wrecks. I am just glad that my kids were not in my car with me. I really hope that people will read this and stop to think before they do something that stupid and end up killing an innocent person or someones child. I think that there needs to be tougher laws on people who do kill people in wrecks. The justice system needs to start making people be held accountable for their actions.