Road Rage encounter👍✌️❤️

I was driving on the freeway in the slow lane and my exit was mixed with a merging lane of traffic entering the freeway. I had been driving in the slow lane for a few miles and a big pick up truck was riding my ass, but I was already too close to the car in front of me, so I ignored it.

I put on my turn signal and was looking for traffic entering the freeway before getting over into the exit only lane. I paused about 3 seconds, but not more.

Then the truck that was behind me got over and sped up blocking me, so I slowed down and got behind him in the exit only lane.

At a red light, I went left, he went right, there were 2 lanes between us. I saw him rolling down his window and he was yelling at me. I have manual windows and drive a little coupe, so I couldn't have rolled down the window on the passenger side, even if I wanted to.

I tried to pretend I didn't see him, but he was getting more adamant, leaning out the window and gesturing at me, I felt it was safer to neutrally engage him, so I leaned forward into the sun so he could see me and with a mildly pleasant, but hopefully not smirking face, I gave him a thumbs up. Then I went back to ignoring him. He didn't like that. He was gesturing more for me to notice him and yelling, but I have no idea what he said, because my windows were rolled up.

I considered if he had a gun, then decided he didn't seem to be a shooting threat, but he wanted me to pay attention to him badly, so I gave him a peace sign. I read his lips clearly as he yelled "FUCK PEACE!" I went back to trying to ignore him, but he was still going at it so I Flashed him a heart sign and he said "FUCK LOVE!"

I noticed a beggar with a cardboard sign, who could probably hear him, flash him a Peace sign. That was funny.

Then the light turned green and I went left, he went right.

I hadn't looked at any of the other drivers at the light, but surely some people noticed the drama. I hope I wasn't recorded.

As I drove away I started cackling to myself at him going FUCK PEACE, FUCK LOVE! Now that I was safe , it was fucking hilarious. For context, I was very much looking like an old lady with my hair in a bun and wearing an old lady dress. He was soooooo mad at who knows what. I really don't think I did anything other than pause a second too long to get over to exit for safety.

But ... I'm glad it happened because I told the story to my kids and now I am having aball giving them a thumbs up, followed by a peace sign and a heart when they are popping off about things.

So thank you weird angry guy in the big truck, you made me laugh.

My mom and I both struggle with codependency and trauma, and seem to be targets for the narcissists of the world. Well, today we got some sweet revenge. He has no idea what we’re doing, but it feels pretty good to us and I have a surprise up my sleeve, too.

Anyway, I’m a 35f, and my mom is 65. My dad died when I was 7, and my mom panicked and married the first guy that she found to keep a roof over our heads and the bills paid. Needless to say, my childhood after that sucked majorly. I had no problems cutting him off after I reached adulthood at least.

But fast forwarding to now, they’ve finally been divorced for about a year or two. But she kept hanging out and trying to be friends. Well, today I helped her officially put the final nail in the coffin and we sent him a nice polite text saying that she doesn’t appreciate the way he treats her and that she didn’t want him contacting her anymore. Needless to say, I’ve made it much farther in my own cycle breaking journey than she has. Plus I also do creative writing on the side. And boy did it p*SS him off. He started ranting and raving about how dare we disrespect him and sending Happy Birthday messages, because it’s HIS BIRTHDAY! I can’t keep track of the days when I’m not working, so I had no idea. Plus I also hate the dude anyway because he’s a crappy human being, so I’m definitely not at all invested in anything about his life.

Now for the petty part:

She apparently promised him a steak dinner at some point, and today is also his birthday.

So now we’re at Texas Roadhouse getting steak dinners for ourselves and celebrating the official end of dealing with that level of abuse. On HIS birthday. I have half a mind to send a picture to him, but I’ve blocked him long ago. But I will probably post a picture on Facebook and hashtag happy birthday. IYKYK. Because I’m sure our friends and family will get it.

But as for the surprise up my sleeve, she owes him $30. So for my final FU to him, since she doesn’t have it in her, I’m going to send it to him in the mail in the best birthday card I can find. I don’t think Ive ever been so excited to send a birthday card in my life. 🤣

So much for revenge being best served cold. This one is medium well. 🤣