FAIRMONT, MT - To listen to Ted and Dawn Maki tell it, you’d almost think it was just a really big bug that hit the windshield of their Kenworth truck instead of a bowling ball that could have killed them both on a Montana highway.

Ted, 54, sported a huge shiner on his right eye, which was still swollen almost shut. His face was also swollen, but otherwise he showed no ill effects from being hit by a 10-pound bowling ball that crashed through his windshield as he was rolling at 65 or 70 mph on I-90 just outside of Fairmont, Mont.

Ted was at the wheel on Sunday while Dawn was sleeping in the sleeper compartment behind the cab.

“The way I look at life is you just take what comes your way and deal with it the best you can and get to work putting it behind you,” Ted told NBC Television TODAY show host Ann Curry during a joint appearance with his wife. “It’s just going to be history now, and I’m OK.”

Police have no clues as to who dropped the ball off an overpass, and Dawn, 55, doesn’t really care. Curry noted that most people would be outraged that someone would do something so potentially lethal, but the Makis instead feel sorry for whoever did it.

“I just feel if someone was stupid enough to do this, then they really have problems, and they’re going to have a hard life ahead of them,” she said in the live satellite interview from Sioux Falls, SD.