Hillbilly Highway

She, who will remain nameless, (wink wink )hates driving in the dark to begin with.
She had really noticed how dark it had become. 
It was cloudy so there were no stars to even shed a teeny bit of light.
She was in the middle of what she liked to call hillbilly highway on route 122.
There were a few houses miles apart from one another and nothing more than rolling hills and  deer. No lights of any kind. Very very dark on a cloudy evening.
She was wishing there were street lights or something because it was a bit scary driving alone on this road.  She wasn't completely alone, her dog was snoring a soft purr of a snore in the back seat.

She had just noticed the speed limit was now 70. She looked down and realized she could speed up and get this horrific drive over with sooner. As she went down a hill she was picking up speed so she hit the brakes to slow down. There were 2 vehicles now in front of her and she was so thankful for the company. She was now behind a car and a tractor trailer.  She saw a car barely off to her side sitting in the bushes. It looked like a silver mustang and she wondered if it was a policeman.

They were barely crawling now because the semi was slowing down to get up the crest of the hill.
She noticed that car on the side of the road had come out and was now behind her and was riding her ass. She couldn't take her eyes off him. What is this person doing?  Is it a cop? She looked down at her speedometer and she was going 38mph. Why doesn't he just pass me then?  The car in front of her put on his signal as he got to the top of the hill and gunned it and passed the truck.  She stayed behind the truck for a bit and then put on her signal and went around the truck. But just in case this could be a cop she decided to do this slowly. As soon as she turned into the lane to pass blinking lights went off. So it is a policeman she thinks. But what did I do?

She can't pull over because there is no berm  on this left side of the road, just a ditch.
So she passed the truck and then pulled over on that side.
As she pulls over she notices that the car has odd lights like someone made them and put it on their dash. The person driving this car comes to the passenger side window.
The man has on all black and a black knit hat down to his eyebrows. He doesn't say anything. Now she is frightened beyond belief.

Here she was on hillbilly highway with no cars in site, no lights, no houses, nothing but she and her dog in the back seat. The man tilts his head into the passenger side window keeping his body away from the car and out of sight. He again taps on the window and he is blinding her with his flashlight. He says nothing. He gestures to put down her window.
She begins to shake and cry. Automatic response I guess.   He keeps tapping the window and making a gesture to put the window down. He refuses to say anything.
She yelled, "NO, who are you?"
He then says, "just put the window down!"
She picks up her phone and calls 911 and drives off. The man gets in his car and follows her.

It appears she has watched too many Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20 and Oprah type shows.
She has seen this played out on the news and she knows how this turns out. She and her little dog will die so they can have her car. No way is she stopping for anyone other than a police officer. 911 dispatcher asks her emergency. She is talking so fast they ask her to slow down. She tells them some man wanted her to pull over, he was in an old mustang and he had blue lights like an officer. She wasn't doing anything wrong so she can't understand why she should have been pulled over n the first place. Then when she did pull over he didn't identify himself as a cop.  He was dressed in all black and a black knit hat down over his face. The man tells her to calm down it is a cop, just pull over!
She yells to him, "how do you know it's an official police officer?" He tells her he is talking to him, "just pull over ma'am"  He is speaking to her like he is mad not at all comforting. 

She pulls over. He comes back and does the same damn thing. No speaking. When she gets the window down she is now shaking so much she can't hold her license or registration. 
He said to her in the most nasty tone, "Why did you do that?"
She mustered all the strength she had and let loose, "Why did you not identify yourself as a policeman? Why are not wearing a real big boy officer hat? Why are you in black from head to toe and no markings of a cop?  Are you trying to scare women on this road? And why did you pull me over anyway? The person in front of me was going twice my speed?" 

Oh he seemed a bit pissed now but she wasn't backing down this man scared the living shit out of her.
She was still shaking and now her dog really hated this man and was growling loudly at him.
He said, "I am a police officer" and then he put his full body into her view. He turned his body to show her his patch on his arm that was facing the woods that said he was a police officer.  "Y0u couldn't see that ?"he asked her

She went from scared shitless to angry as hell in a New York minute.
"How the hell could I see that if it wasn't facing me? You were blinding me with your flashlight on hillbilly highway with no other lights, you are driving a very old mustang, you are wearing a black knit cap like a thug and no where on your person does it say anything about police except your upper arm patch FACING the wooded area opposite where I can NOT see it sir. And let me add  I am an old lady why the hell would I run from the police? I did nothing wrong. Why wouldn't you identify yourself? What was with all the silence and hand gestures? If you weren't the police you were just rude sir. Why wouldn't you have come up to the car and said you were Office So & So please put down your window ma'am?  You behaved like a thug and you are dressed like a thug. I feared for my life."

All he said was, "get your license and registration."  No please, nothing.
She gave it to him and rolled up her window and calmed her dog who was now between the front seat and the back attempting to protect her master. She hugged her dog and hoped she could calm down as well because she just couldn't stop shaking like a leaf.  She has never been that terrified in her whole life.

After a few minutes the thug of a police officer came back to the window with a speeding ticket. He first asked, what county she was from. When she stated the county he said, "oh" like it was the answer to something. She thought perhaps he thinks since it's not hillbilly land the city girl really was frightened. She signed the ticket but just had to ask, "When was I speeding?  It was a 70 mph zone and when I got behind the semi and the car I went down to 38-40 tops"
He responded in a snarky tone that the 70mph stopped and it went back to 60 and you obviously didn't notice that. "Obviously", she muttered.

She wanted to know why the hell he followed her then for so long and never stopped her. Why was he just riding her ass for a few miles instead of stopping her.
He rode her ass from 70 to 38mph. It was at least 3 miles. That made no sense.
But she didn't ask him. She wanted this horrific drive to be over with and she wanted to be on her way.  She took her ticket, rolled up her window and drove off not saying another word.

Then the last 40 minutes of the drive she dodged deer in the road like an arcade game.
Coming onto the road from the left, from the right. Big deer everywhere.
When it occurred to her this was like a damn arcade game she laughed out loud alone in her car on hillbilly highway.  It sounded loud and it made her dog sigh but lay back down.
Guess that was the dog's cue she was going to be okay. 
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update: I got some comments in my personal email that they thought this was just a story for halloween or something. No this really happened to me last Friday! the most scared I have been in my whole life.
It's a bit funny now but not then trust me!