I was chased by a sociopath

I'm on a role of ticking people off this weekend.

First it was one kid (a post to come on a later date) and then this afternoon about an hour ago. I just stopped shaking.

I'm coming home from Target and I have my brother and his friend in the car. My brother's friend is like another brother, he lives down the street from us and has for forever so he's always over. That said, he doens't think. Ever. And he does the STUPIDEST things.

We're in the car and we're almost to my house. I'm driving and some jerk cuts in front of me and slows down. I don't do anything but I'm like What the Heck lady? I don't say anything, I don't do any flipping of the bird- nothing. She slows down majorly and brother's friend reaches over and Honks my friken horn. Oh SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHT.

The woman (in her purple box van) STOPs her car in the middle of the road (There are cars around us mind you) and turns around in her seat and starts flipping me off and cursing at me. I just sit there and mouth sorry and point to the kid. She sits in the middle of the road and beckons for me to go around her. I was all, absolutely not because I knew that she would try and hit me or something. Or she could have had a knife or a gun and I wasn't going to chance that. She doesn't move out of the road and by this time I'm terrified.

I was next to the entrance to a shopping center so I turned into it and floored it. She also turned into it. I had the chance to go a back way so I did and prayed that she wasn't going to beat me to it. I have never driven so fast in my life. I flew over a speedbump at like 50 mph. Thankfully no cars were coming so I just kept going and turned into my neighborhood, which is thankfully gated. I kept looking in my review mirror and I was pretty sure that I lost her.

My question though is, WHY? I'm SURE this woman was on drugs or something and was just down right crazy, but really. what is the point of STOPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD? Why would you want me to go around you so that you could SIDE swipe me? What would be the point in that, idiot. I understand she got ticked off, but REALLY, should you even be driving if you have that kind of emotional problems? What if I had younger kids in the car?

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. When I was younger and just learning to drive, I accidentally cut someone off on I-95. He was in a Range Rover (a really nice one too) and he sped in front of me and kept stopping and slowing so that I would hit him. Thankfully I knew what he was doing and I never did. Plus my dad was with me and I wasn't as scared, but it was still pretty terrifying. Seriously what is up with all the crazy drivers?!

Now is your turn. Feel free to share your craziest/scariest driving related story with me!

PS - Thank you all so much for your kind words and prayers. The hand of God is truly with me today and I feel better already. I will need the most strength for Tuesday when I have to make these decisions, so please keep the prayers coming. I am so thankful for you all and if any of you ever need anything I would be more than happy to do it.