Had a fender bender with no damage a few months ago where the woman (while holding a baby) was even worse than this. The woman was so bizarre that I started filming her. She flipped out even worse. She kept standing in heavy traffic while holding the child. Even the police had a hard time calming her down and getting her to a safe place. Total emotional melt down. Zero damage to either vehicle as we merely touched bumpers.
My advice to anyone who encounters such a situation... start filming as their perception of reality is totally different than the facts of the event.
Had a fender bender with no damage a few months ago where the woman (while holding a baby) was even worse than this. The woman was so bizarre that I started filming her. She flipped out even worse. She kept standing in heavy traffic while holding the child. Even the police had a hard time calming her down and getting her to a safe place. Total emotional melt down. Zero damage to either vehicle as we merely touched bumpers. My advice to anyone who encounters such a situation... start filming as their perception of reality is totally different than the facts of the event.
From the
Online Etymology Dictionary:
hysteria (n.)
nervous disease, 1801, coined in medical Latin as an abstract noun from Greek
hystera "womb," from PIE
*udtero-, variant of
*udero- "abdomen, womb, stomach" (see
uterus). Originally defined as a neurotic condition peculiar to women and thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus. With abstract noun ending
-ia. General sense of "unhealthy emotion or excitement" is by 1839.