So the other night I saw something on the road – placed squarely flat on the asphalt – that I’ve not seen before on any roads.
It was because we had to drive to Ain’s sister’s house at Taman Bukit Kinrara. We took the Middle Ring Road 2 westbound. The traffic suddenly slowed and moved as like treacle for a kilometre. Then I saw the thing I’ve not seen before on roads. The stretch of road coming downhill from Cheras bent to the right, squeezing between the Giant Supermarket at Connaught and the great big Chinese cemetery. There were people – drivers who had stopped – standing near it, and they too were standing on the road and not on the curb – not that there was a curb by the side of the road.
The thing on the road wasn’t big nor small, but it was noticeable enough under the bright street lamps of the MRR2.
I’ve never seen the thing resting comfortably on the road before, but now I have, because of the slow pace the car was on. The car crept at slowly past cars and bikes that had stopped at the side of the road, and it had caused a traffic jam. Then I noticed it. I thought I might have been mistaken. The road forced my to maintain a right turn, thus taking most of my attention away from the thing on the road, so I might have been mistaken.
I peeked at it again, and sure enough it was something I’d never seen before on a road before.
Ain started to say something about it and cringed.
I asked her, “Is that what I think it is?”
Police was in front of us, directing traffic away from the mangled blue car on the right side of the road, against the divider. After we passed the police, the traffic became smoother and I accelerated the car to its nominal highway speeds, leaving behind the freshly dismembered human arm that we had seen, resting squarely and peacefully on the road.
I wonder what other unlikely things will I see sitting undisturbed on roads as I drive past them in the future.
