Today a truck drove so close to me I could feel the wind of passenger side mirror blow past my shoulder. Close call: you know and I know you did that on purpose. No cars were on the opposite side of the road and you were driving fast.
It’s not the first time a guy in a truck drove as close to me as he could without hitting me. On my country road walks, here in Montana, I could count a more than a few times this has happened.
Walking with traffic, my son and I were a half a block to Main Street walking on the shoulder. The cars usually pull in at an angle here but there where no parked cars today where we were, in front of this business, it’s Sunday.
So,I shot him the finger and sure enough he was watching (probably laughing and raging) and quickly backed up to us. “Why are you walking in the middle of the road”
We weren’t. Why are you trying to hit us? You can see were on the shoulder”
“Shouldn’t be on the road, Bitch”
“Are you fucking kidding Me?” as I looked at his girlfriend in the passengers seat.
“You’re A f***ing whore”
“Is he gonna beat you when you get home?” I asked her.
Then he gave a big honkering spit at me, spraying his girlfriend.
I did not move. I felt it was all in slow motion.
I turned and walked to the back of the truck and started memorizing his plate number and he drove away.
The worst part of it all, the WORST part is when the cop on the phone I was reporting the Street Harassment to said I should not have given him the finger.
I had a feeling this would be turned on me because I am a woman.
It’s been six hours and twenty minutes since The Police officer I reported this incident to said he was going to look into it and get back to me.
I will not let this go again.
UPDATE:
He gets a disorderly conduct warning for calling me a whore – not for almost running us over, not intimidation, not for Spitting on me. I get a disorderly conduct warning for giving him the finger and was told I should walk on a sidewalk if possible. The officer said there was no third party as witness so that’s all he could do.
– Amy E
Location: Hamilton, Montana
