Insane drivers are following me.

This pretty much explains how my day was today. This letter has now been e-mailed to the Services Manager with Bus Eireann.

Dear Sir,

Today I was in contact with the bus inspector about the driver of the above mentioned bus. He explained to me that if I wanted to make a complaint I had to do it in writing to you.

This morning at approximately 09.30am I was traveling out the Dublin road approaching the first turn off to Renmore on the Monenageesha cross side, just after The Brothers of Charity. In front of me I had a learner driver. She was stopped behind another car that was turning into Renmore Park on the right, but it being a hill the learner driver was rolling back against my car. I had left loads of room behind her but she had still rolled back so that she was right in front of my car.

I could not reverse to get out of her way because there was a car right behind me, so when she rolled back again I instinctively pulled the car to the left. I know I shouldn’t have, but it was either that or I was going to get a people carrier on top of my bonnet. All of this happened in a matter of seconds so I had no time to think, just react. I didn’t even look in the rear view.

All of a sudden I heard a blasting of a horn. Straight away I stopped & one of your buses pulled up beside me. I proceeded to open the passenger window so I could apologize & explain what had happened. However the bus kept going forward slowly. Next thing I know the bus is diagonally across the front of my passenger side & the driver has his head out of the window shouting at me. I don’t know what he said, but he just kept shouting. As this is going on I keep saying to him that I am sorry I didn’t see him.

This may have only lasted seconds, but not knowing if he was going to actually hit my car or not it seemed to go on for ages. Eventually he drove off & we continued slowly up the rest of the hill. As we are going up I was in line with his back tires that was until he started to swerve out in front of me. I honestly thought he was going to hit my car. I will be honest, I was quite intimidated.

He finally pulled in to the stop across from Galvia hospital. As i was going by I was about to wave another apology, but that was until he put his head out the window & made what I can only assume was an angry face, but it just looked funny to me. The intention behind it wasn’t though. I have to admit, this made me angry, so I ended up showing him my middle finger. I know I shouldn’t have, but I was very intimidated.

Straight away I was willing to apologize, but instead he decided to act violently. I really don’t feel what happened warranted his reaction. I would be very grateful if you could speak to your driver regarding this issue, because there were passengers on that bus & I’m sure some of them were bound to know what was happening.

Thank you.

Yours Faithfully,

Michelle O’Neill.

I’m begining to wonder are insane drivers following me lately or something. hahaha