Drive-By Waving!
My mother-in-law and I recently suffered a drive-by waving! We are both OK now, but our eyes had to recover from the bizarre event. We were driving home on a very long stretch of highway, mid-day, when I looked over at the car next to me. It was that weird sense that someone’s watching you that caused me to turn and look. This beat-up, ugly, red Astro Van was driving right next to me at the exact same speed. When I looked over the person driving leaned as far as they could into the passenger area to get their extended hand as close to me as possible in order to wave this violent, “Hi! Hello!” I then, with a puzzled look on my face, waved back - I am not a rude person after all. The ugly van blasted ahead of us as soon as the waving was finished. My mother-in-law and I giggled about it and thought it was a little weird, but whatever.
It wasn’t until the van slowed down and seemed to be driving erratically that we began to worry about who the freak behind the wheel might be. Our van and the ugly van soon caught up to each other once again, but I was uneasy driving close to the whack who was weaving. We were now driving on a high speed stretch of highway so I sped up and passed the red minivan to gain safe ground! I told my mother-in-law to get a look at the person’s face as we passed. She was unable to see the face at the speed we were going. I returned to a normal speed and watched as the ugly, red van stayed a healthy distance behind us.
It seemed that the weird encounter with the ugly red minivan had come to an end as we were getting ready to get off the highway and the Astro Van was continuing on the freeway. Our luck changed as I watched the Astro Van fly from the fast lane onto the off ramp at the last second - as if the driver had just realized I was getting off. I started to yell at my mother-in-law that the van was following us! The van pushed through traffic, caught up to us and did this double wave thing - once again totally blocking their face - and jetted ahead of us. The red van quickly spun itself around in a U-turn and got right back onto the freeway! My mother-in-law and I just laughed in “Wow, that was strange!” hysterics for a few minutes. I could not believe the encounter that had just happened to us. Not to get a glimpse of the face was the most annoying part! It’s an unsolved mystery.
If you are ever driving the long stretch of highway between hell and… more hell - watch out for the drive-by waver!
