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[quote=Anonymous]I was crossing the street yesterday morning. The crosswalk light was green the entire time. When I was halfway across, a car made a left turn and cut me off. He literally was like 3 feet away. I was angry, looked at the driver, and it’s my BIL, which made me even angrier. He didn’t look over and I was too stunned to react in the moment, just hurried the rest of the way to the sidewalk.

I was carrying an umbrella, wearing my baby, and also wore brightly colored rain boots. No way he didn’t see me. I distinctly remember seeing his car sitting in the left turning lane before I got to the intersection. He turned from a big road onto a one-lane residential road with no lane markings. We all live in the same community so know the intersection well. In fact, a few months ago, he was outraged that a car almost ran him and his child over at the same intersection.

I’m not close to BIL. We only see each other at family gatherings and do not text or anything like that. So I thought it would be best for my DH to talk to his sister about it. She actually called her husband a “safe and cautious driver” before hearing the story, but agreed to talk to him that night. SIL texted later that night to say BIL started going because he thought he would have plenty of time. But then I started walking a lot faster than he thought, and he couldn’t stop because traffic was coming in the other direction. He felt bad right away and knew he probably made me panic. He is really sorry.

I don’t know what I was expecting his response to be, but in a way it’s worse because he knew it was me crossing the street with a baby and yet he made the conscious decision to make a left turn in the rain, into oncoming traffic, and a pedestrian on the crosswalk. If I was walking any faster, I’m pretty sure he would’ve hit us. Lesson learned for me is to continually turn my head in all directions when I’m walking.

How do I forgive and move forward from here? We don’t have any family gatherings coming up (thank goodness), but I’ll have to see him at some point.[/quote]

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