Shooting Incident

I had been to my family practitioner MD who is helping me organize the information I'm getting from Specialists because you sort of need someone like this to be an advocate for you in this age of specialization to make sense of everything.

My wife said, "Let's check your wheel on your truck to see if it is really bent or not." I said, "Fine. Let's go do that because it was within 5 miles of where my doctor's office is. So, we did that. However, on the way I heard sirens and Fire trucks at an intersection so I waited for them as they all screamed past us. However, when we got to the local large tire shop they were only a few buildings away and the police were putting that yellow tape of a "Police investigation area" like you see on crime shows on TV with the fire trucks and the police cars inside of the tape. This majorly screwed up the traffic and people were trying to turn around because that was all they could do in this situation. Many of the men who worked at the tire shop came out to see what all the noise was about and they were talking. I asked them "What is happening?" They said, "Oh. There's been a shooting up the street."

This didn't make me feel very good, then an African American couple driving by in their car said, "What's happening?" I told them there had been a shooting and they were understandably upset at hearing this.

I walked inside the office to the tire shop and asked a man about checking if my rear wheel was bent or not and if it was I wanted to likely buy another wheel and another tire because the tire was also wearing funny on that left rear wheel on my truck. He asked if the tire had stayed there or had been rotated. I told him that I didn't really know because we have a policy where we take my truck to Toyota and they periodically automatically rotate the tires. I said, "20 years ago when I rotated my own tires on all my cars and trucks I could have told you but not now."

I used to do all or most of my own work on my cars and trucks because it is much less expensive to do that. However, for the last 20 years my life has been different than that because my wife likes to buy maintanence policies for all our vehicles so she pays for this stuff up front 5 to 7 years in advance which she thinks is more cost efficient. To me, the best thing is I get Synthetic Oil for my truck engine which will make it last a lot longer (the engine).

However, you don't want to switch to synthetic and then go back to regular oil on most vehicles because then that might harm the engine. So, once you switch to synthetic oil you have to be really careful about that.

I found it sort of disturbing to be near a shooting incident even though I didn't walk over to see what had happened. I was sort of grateful I had not because I have noticed seeing gore can be harmful in one's life. In some ways it is better not to see real stuff like that because it can mess you up in various ways.

So, protect yourself if you can from those kinds of traumas (visual traumas) if you can because they do affect you long term no matter what you might think at present.

It's much different if you are watching something staged and unreal because you can always say to yourself, "This is fake. I'm just being entertained." However, the real thing often means permanent injuries or deaths and funerals and the survivors suffering with the outcomes as long as they live.