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I Was Cursed Out By a 78-Year-Old Trump Supporter Because I Was Driving Home From Work

Here I was waiting at a left turn light. I hear frantic beeping and look to my left to see an elderly man sitting in the passenger seat of a small silver coupe.

His face is distorted, beet-red, eyes bulging. He’s already hanging out of the passenger window, gesticulating wildly.

I roll down the Jeep window to hear this salty old dog of at least 78 years screaming,

“You fucking idiot! You are a fucking moron! You should be locked up! Why are you …”

I listened for a bit more.

“What is the matter?” I asked in a mild tone.

“You were fucking blocking the entire road for ages! No one could get by! No one like you should be allowed to drive! …” (more f-bombs, spittle flying).

I have to give this old bastard credit; I didn’t hear the c-word once.

I look to the drivers’ seat. A small dark-haired elderly woman is seated beside him. She’s the honker. Her sallow pinched features are those of a woman who leaves a $1 tip on a $60 salad luncheon bill. I glimpse a flash of pearls.

So this vehicle is to my Jeep’s left in a double left-hand turn lane. This car is the third one in the near left-hand turn lane. I am…