Sorry dude, my car stalled.... (big rant)

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So last night my hubby and I were on our way back home from a very nice dinner out. We had decided to go home to a nice empty house instead of picking up our daughter from my friend since we had um... some other plans before she was snuggling up between us like she tends to do. There was quite a bit of traffic, usually is down the main drag in town on Friday nights. Not a problem, expected actually. Sometimes I look at people in the cars around me, not long enough for them to notice but long enough for me to sometimes see someone singing along or dancing or poking their eye or whatever. There was this lady in the car next to us a little ahead and she looked like she was having a seizure or something. Then her CAR had a seizure, and she must've restarted it. She went right back to moving around all jerky like her brain wasn't connected right, I was kind of watching out of the corner of my eye the way you'd watch a train wreck occurring. Anyhow, so she gets into our lane, in front of us. The light at the intersection on the overpass turned red, so we slowed down, expecting to stop. Suddenly her car is like.... moving backwards, without brake lights... and it just keeps coming! Here I am staring at this car backing into us thinking 'holy sh!t...' and my hubby leans on the horn but the car keeps coming!!! Meanwhile the light changes but her car is sitting practically right on top of our hood, not freaking moving. She finally RESTARTS the damn car and jerkily peels away, signalling and getting into the other lane. We clear the light and then have to stop for the next one. She is one car ahead in the lane directly next to ours, so hubby rolls down my window and yells 'get off the phone you f****ing idiot!' and there she is with her window rolled down, STILL TALKING on her phone so loud that all the cars around us can probably hear her entire conversation - and she is HOLDING the phone, no headset, no bluetooth, nothing... she goes 'Sorry DUDE, my CAR stalled' (imagine a really sing-songy young voice) and as she is saying that, her car stalls AGAIN, so she is restarting her car while holding her stupid phone on her shoulder and trying to yell out her window at US. $%^&!??? The whole 'dude' thing was bad enough, who uses that word anyway? People who are TWELVE? And it is of our opinion that someone who is still a kid or pretty close to one has no business calling an adult, especially a stranger - 'dude'. Secondly - who stalls their car THREE times in less than a block? Somebody not paying attention? And no, it was a PT cruiser, which doesn't come with a manual transmission, so that cannot be used as an excuse! Have YOU ever accidentally backed into someone on a street and then had the nerve to use an excuse this dumb? I have NEVER rolled back into somebody lol. I could not BELIEVE this! Now that I see it written down, it looks pretty funny.