About 15 years ago, my boss got a cell phone. They were new in those days, and darn big heavy things. He lent it to me one day when I had to run an errand for him. I was in heavy traffic sitting at a red light, the light turned green and everybody went except the car in front of me. The driver, a man, was looking at his passenger, a woman, and they were laughing and talking. There was a child in the backseat, I'd say a boy of maybe 10.
The car behind me started to go, but I was stopped because the car in front of me was stopped. After a few seconds, probably 10 seconds which is more than enough time, they were still laughing and the traffic around us in other lanes was whizzing by, so I tooted (NOT BEEPED, TOOTED once lightly) my horn, as a warning to pay attention.
The man looked in his rear view mirror at me, the woman and child both turned around and I didn't make any further movement or motion. He started to pull forward, but very slowly, purposely trying to upset me. Everybody behind me then moved over to the next lane to pass us, but because he was directly in front of me and cars behind me were moving over, I was stuck unable to do anything.
Finally after a few moments I slowed down too, let him go a little ahead of me, and I moved over and began to pick up speed.
He moved behind me and got right on my tail. I could practically see the spittle on his t-shirt, he was that close.
He pulled around to my left, and then immediately cut me off and got in front of me and hit his breaks. All the while, the woman was making some big show about pointing her fingers and holding up paper and a pen like she was writing my plate number down.
The entire time I was calm, paid them no attention, minded my own car, and the rules of the road and let him go ahead and put his happy happy little show.
I got to my intersection and turned into the jughandle at the traffic light. Now, he was in FRONT of me, but as he saw me turning off, he immediately cut me off and took the same jughandle and somehow got behind me. So I was sitting at the red light with him behind me, right up against my back end, paying him no attention whatsoever (which I'm sure pissed him off to no end).
Light turned green, we started to go and I deliberately drove around in and out of a neighborhood streets to test him and it was very obvious he was following me deliberately. No way he was just going the same way I was.
Finally, I pulled over in front of somebody's house and he pulled over and blocked my car in. Got out, started walking to my window, I used that darn heavy cell phone to call 911, and as he approached my car I yelled out the window "I'M ON THE PHONE WITH THE COPS".
He goes, 'I was trying to get your attention. You have a tail light out, I didn't think you knew. Did you think I was going to do something? I got my kid in the car!" He turned around, got in his car and sped
That's why I believe it's possible this woman is telling the truth.
