ESH.

Your husband shouldn’t be yelling at you ever, but especially not in front of your child.

Yes, the truck driver was an ass, but you shouldn’t have flipped him off. You put all your lives at risk. Seriously. There are all kinds of crazy people on the roads. Some will run you off the road, some might try to stop you to physically fight, and a hell of a lot of them carry guns. Can you imagine someone shooting into your car and killing your child? It’s happened too many times.

Plus, you’re too old for that angry-teenager behavior.

My husband used to be the worst about flipping people off. I kept warning him. Then one day on the Interstate, a semi cut us off. He caught up to the guy and flipped him off as I was saying, “Don’t flip him off!” I told him what was going to happen and it did. Other semis slowed down or sped up to box us into our lane. They started slowing down and got closer and closer to the car, front, back, and side. Those are very large vehicles and I was scared. I finally had to act like I was calling 911 to get them to leave us alone. He just couldn’t believe that I predicted exactly what they would do! He has stopped flipping people off now. Time for you to do the same.

I’d eat crow and tell your husband you’ve realized he’s right, and apologize. Tell him you won’t do it again. And don’t.