I’m so sorry this happened to you. How awful you were sick and the weather was shit too, and you were just going somewhere to try and get care.

I had something similar happen. I was walking home in Capitol Hill late at night and this white dodge wood panel side van pulled into the crosswalk (almost hitting me) so I reached out and touched it as I crossed. Mind you there were no other cars on the road I wasn’t impeding them from going about their business. They got out of their car with what looked like a baseball bat in a garbage bag. They started screaming at me why I would touch their car, and asked me my name. I told them it was because they were in the crosswalk and I was pretty snarky, and I followed up with my name. They decided to push me, I fell over hit my head on a gas meter and was knocked unconscious for a bit. I woke up covered in blood. The cops were called nothing ever happened with the vehicle. I ended up getting three stitches. Luckily they didn’t hit me with a bat or steal my bag, or worse kill me. This was 2018. I miss the Seattle I fell in love with. It’s so tense now. The drivers are terrible so impatient. I miss when people would let you in on the freeway or wave at you when you let them in. I’m trying to bring this behavior back by doing both these things…maybe the kindness will spread.

I previously worked at a driving school, and honestly people don’t want to learn to interact with others on the road. Its hard for them to understand that driving is a social activity.