Sometimes when I drive somewhere I get scared that someone is following me, road raging at me, or calling the police on me. I'll get home after I went out somewhere and start panicking that someone reported me to the police, or followed me to my house, and I'm going to be in huge trouble...even if I didn't do anything wrong or unusual. I get paranoid that an offended driver is going to spot my car on the street and do something bad.

It doesn't help that years ago, someone actually DID report me to the police. I was going a bit fast at the time, about 80 in the middle lane, but it was a big wide interstate with very few cars around and mostly everyone else was doing 80-85. To this day, I don't know who it could have been. A police officer literally called my house saying that I'd been reported for driving recklessly and was very angry and aggressive about it. He said that police would be monitoring the roadway looking for my car and it made me really scared and stressed out. Since then I've been so paranoid, and I guess I never got over my fear despite that event happening 7-8 years ago.

There have also been occasions where the driver in front of me would get super angry and start brake checking me when I genuinely wasn't trying to offend the driver by tailgating. Sometimes I'd get behind a car moving much slower than expected or consistently dropping in momentum for no clear reason, and the momentum of my car was just moving faster than theirs for a really long stretch of road despite having my foot off the gas and riding the brakes repeatedly. One guy doing this just slammed to a stop and got out of his truck and I had to drive away as fast as I could. It wasn't like I was driving right on his bumper or intentionally trying to be aggressive.