Scarred beauty and scared beauty

Something happened to my dear Chevy last Saturday... was driving along the North- South highway from Mines back to KL on a quiet Saturday morning around 10:30am and all of a sudden, a big rock the size of my fist came out of nowhere and flew onto my windscreen. I didn't see any construction along that stretch.

Before the rock hit, there was a silver waja trailing very near my back which forced me to switch from the rightmost lane to the middle lane. After moving to the middle lane, I noticed a strange old grey vannette, driven by a man with the window open, on my left. The reason I found it strange was because it was driving halfway between the middle lane and the leftmost slow lane. It seems to be trying get onto the middle lane but keep going halfway between the slowest lane and middle lane even though I drove at a constant speed behind the vannette to let it cut into the middle land. I drove on, minding my own business and suddenly the white rock hit in front of me. I was shocked... but I kept driving. I thought my windscreen have cracked but I didn't stop and just kept driving and didn't think much about the van nor the waja.

When I finally reach home, I checked my car for any damage and luckily the windscreen survived with only a scratch on the surface. The car bonnet, however, suffered a scar.... a scratch about 1.5cm long and 1 mm wide. Yeah, no doubt I was heartbroken (oh, how do you fix the scar?) but after hearing my colleagues told me later, I felt really really scared.

She told me that there are some syndicates out there who purposely create accidents like breaking your windscreen and then later rob and rape the car owners. Additionally, if the rock had fell or flew from somewhere, my windscreen would have been smashed due to the mere impact as I was travelling around 80km on the highway. However, if it came from the vanette, the impact is less since the rock was travelling around the same speed of my car. So the possibility of the rock coming from the vanette is very high.

I am really thankful that the chevy's windscreen didn't break... and that I have kept on driving.... I wasn't alert about the 2 cars then until now when I think back about the whole incident. I still feel very very scared now.

To all drivers out there, please be very very alert and careful when driving along lonely and quiet highways, and try not to stop at deserted areas.