Sometimes I’m over sensitive. I feel something wrong in another person and I get so caught up in what’s wrong and who’s fault it is. It consumes me and I only know how to be over involved or ignore it completely.

I was taking a cab with a friend and the driver was not able to put both our addresses in. He put hers in and it seemed like he knew where he was going. It was two five minute drives.
He started talking about people who he asks to put an address in Waze and they don’t listen to him and give him bad directions. He started saying how they piss him off, how angry they make him. I was like “it seems like a lot of anger cous this is what you do”. Then he started arguing with me which way he should be driving and he missed a turn or two. I readjusted my route and we didn’t end up taking a detour.

He just got me so confused. Am I the person you get pissed at cous I didn’t put it in Waze? Were you implying I put it down? Or telling me a story?

I texted my friend when I got home, being like that was weird. I was pretty freaked out about the drivers anger and asked her to text me when she got home. She wrote me the driver wasn’t really clear and a bit odd. I didn’t want to overthink it and push my feelings on her, or ask for validation from her. So I just didn’t chat much after she wrote me she got home.

But I wanted to ask if he made her uncomfortable, if she felt OK? I told myself she would tell me if something happened, but also felt bad for not making sure. But I did not want to project my feelings onto her.

Thanks for reading this unclear overthink of a short cab ride.

Does this happen to you?