Quick Decision
Never thought this would happen.
Sometimes we make a judgement call on something and someone just doesn’t agree with you. Could’ve been a bad decision but if no one was hurt during it most times we as people just accept it and move on.
Chalk it up as a learning experience. Every once in a while, someone gets emotional towards you and wants to start a fight or do some things to intimidate you.
About six weeks ago I went out of the house and got in my car and drove to the gym. I used to be all energized weaving in and out of traffic and beeping the horn if someone was not doing something the way I would do it.
I used to get angry at every small thing. A lot of things have happened to me that have made me rethink how I approach driving and or interacting with people. Maybe all that bad karma still needs to be repaid.
These days I pay really close attention to the road and drive in a courteous manner and somehow even in doing that the people I’m on the road with think of me as some idiot that doesn’t know how to drive. That karma catching up to me again.
Back to driving to the gym. It seems like just a normal sunny day in Las Vegas. I get to the gym and put my stuff in the locker. I mostly have tunnel vision while I am in the gym but will take the time to chat with staff from time to time. Lots of energy in the gym and I really don’t like confrontation, so I pretty much just keep to myself, workout and move on about my day.
I worked out on the bike for my 30-minute time slot then went back to grab my stuff out of the locker. I thought to myself man I feel pretty good, so I’ll head home and do some things around the house and be productive. I get into my car, back out of my spot and start to pull out in the thru way.
I’m halfway sticking out in the road, and I saw someone coming my way, so I pulled the rest of the way out. I was close enough to him, so I felt like I had made a split-second decision and avoided a collision. Really that was not that big of a deal, but he took it personal as though I had cut him off.
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It wasn’t done intentionally. I was just trying to drive purposefully, and my main goal was to not get hit or hit him. This guy’s car had tinted windows so I couldn’t see his reaction, but I was really wondering how badly I might have pissed him off.
He stayed behind me through the rest of the gym parking lot and then through an apartment complex that would lead me to a main road. I was only a couple of miles away from home and I still noticed that he was behind me.
I made a turn onto the road that would lead to my apartment complex eventually and he was continuing to follow me as we got further and further away from the gym. What are the odds that he is going somewhere past my apartment and would eventually make a turn and go on about his way. He kept following.
I drove past my apartment. Now after a couple of turns up the road I knew he wasn’t going to stop without a confrontation. I kept looping and looping trying to get him to drop the tail. I was getting tired of this testosterone loaded monster.
Really you are going to follow me for 6 miles from the gym because I hurt your feelings. This all seemed really ridiculous to me now and I really wanted to get home. I thought that I would try something and see what kind of reaction that I would get from him.
I picked up my phone and put it up to my ear and just started talking. He immediately pulled around me and I got his plate number in case anything happened at a later time. We might at some point run into each other at the gym.
I finally made it home and thought to myself next time I will be more careful in the parking lot but if it’s not one scenario it might be another. Like I say people will be critics of you no matter what decisions you might make.
I don’t think I could’ve handled the situation any better once he started following me. Only thing that still bothers me a bit is that I wasn’t able to see what he looked like. I would never pick him out at the gym.
Likely nothing would happen in the gym I would hope, but I do see his car there on occasion and I just go on about my work out and try to leave all the fear at the door. As much as I am trying to be a better person it just seems like I am a magnet to these types of situations lately.
Whether it is Todd or this guy at the gym I’m just really trying to escape feelings of fear and looking over my shoulder. I think I will get better at it eventually and just find my center and zen no matter what is going on around me. Find yourself within and the without just won’t even matter as much. Love is the answer. I just need to turn these things over to love and be at peace.
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