Dec 08, 2001 00:52
So, I had just about the most traumatic experience of my life today. Sandra and I decided to drive around Des Moines looking at Christmas lights, and we were having a quite enjoyable experience. We had just looked at two well-decorated houses that were featured in the Des Moines Register, when Sandra sort of accidentally ran a stop sign. Well, this was the closest I've ever come to actually getting into a major accident, so it was rather scary. This big black truck came speeding along perpendicular to us, and we barely made it through the intersection without being hit. As if that wasn't pants-wetting enough, the black truck proceeded to turn around and follow us and try to run us off the road. So, it sort of cornered us on the side of the road, and this woman began getting out of her vehicle. Needless to say, Sandra and I were freaking out. We were so incredibly afraid that this person was going to shoot us in a violent fit of road rage, that we managed to manuever around the truck and speed out of the situation to the highway entrance ramp. At this point, the woman jumped back into her truck and followed us into the highway, then cut us off and stuck us on the shoulder. This time we were really trapped, and Sandra began hyperventillating as the woman got out of her car again. At this point, she decided to show us her police badge. She came over to the car, and the first thing she screamed as Sandra rolled down the window was, "what the hell do you think you're doing?" We were aghast. Sandra tried to explain to her in her shortness of breath about how she didn't see the stop sign, and she thought that this woman was trying to kill her. The woman was noticeably very angry, and she yelled some more things about how lucky we were that she was off duty, then she took her mannish haircut and got back in her big black truck with a rainbow sticker in the window and sped away. Okay, how stupid can a person really be? Did she not realize that her car was not marked as police in any way, and that we had absolutely no idea who she was, or what she was trying to do to us? I wish I had written down her license plate number or her name or something so I could call the police department and complain about her. URGH!!!