Open letter to the guy I cut off in traffic this morning
admin October 11th, 2007
Dear young guy in the white oxford driving the black SUV.
I totally cut you off in traffic this morning, and I’m sorry. I was an asshole.
There was a long line of cars at the light to turn left, and I bypassed them thinking that I would go down and turn around. That is until I saw the very small space in front of your car, and made a snap decision to very rudely just shove my car’s ass right over. You had probably already waited through two lights just to get to that spot. You probably had to brake to keep from hitting me. I know you were pretty pissed because I watched you throw your hands up and yell something at me in my rear view mirror. Yup, I deserved that. Cutting you off was a totally asshole thing to do. I hate people who do things like that. I didn’t even have a good reason. I wasn’t late to an important appointment. There was no emergency. I wasn’t half asleep or in some personal crisis. I just acted like a total jackass.
If it makes you feel any better I felt guilty about cutting you off all morning. I still am worried that you will turn out to be one of my neighbors and I will see you every morning from now on. I also know that your route to work is very similar to mine, since you followed me most of the way in this morning. Thank you for not driving right up on my ass after I cut you off, even though I would have deserved it. If I could write you a note or buy you a drink or something I would, but then you’d know who I was for sure, and my one hope of you forgetting all about it would die forever.
If my worst fears come true and you do happen to be my neighbor, please keep my guilt in mind before you decide to retaliate by say, teasing my dogs, or shooting a bb gun at my windows. Because I might want to retaliate if someone cut me off like I did you this morning. And that would be a totally asshole thing to do.
Yours Truly,
Normally conscientious driver chick