Although it seems like a lifetime ago, I remember this incident vividly.

I was driving home to Woodstock after a shift on the copy desk when I encountered an aggressive driver. The person in the other vehicle cut me off as we drove on Route 14 from Crystal Lake.

I must have had a rough shift, because I was in no mood for someone being rude to me on the road.

Without using one shred of sense, I decided that this person needed to be taught a lesson and that tailgating with my bright headlights on would do.

Mind you, it was after midnight, and I was a single woman on my way home. That this was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done is not even up for debate. Yet here we were.

Luckily, at some point the danger I was putting myself in crossed my mind and I came to my senses. But what if

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