What a crappy couple of days it's been.

[PKRWUD]

Originally posted by 1BAD89
[B]I wasn't trying to say the car related ones were irrelevant, since this is a car site and all. But to list earthquakes, train wrecks, dog killings, etc... I think is going a little extreme

I'm not crying that the sky is falling, but the dog is a big deal around here. I guess they train them better here than they do in Minn. and in Kell's episodes of Cops. It was the first K-9 in Ventura County killed in the line of duty. That was an afterthought, though. Kinda the icing on the cake, I guess. The QF-4 Phantom jet that crashed was a huge deal around here. You could see the smoke from my balcony. I worked in NASCAR, and am very concerned about both Jack Rousch nearly dying and the fact that in two days, in two accidents, 51 cars were wrecked at Talladega. It's also a bit of a bummer when a musician who I enjoy, dies.

These things all happened within 48 hours of each other. The fact that there was also a 5.5 earthquake, referred to as a "100 year quake", 200 miles from where I grew up as a kid, or the fact that there was such a large train derailment within an hours drive from my Moms house, also all occuring within that same 48 hours, just made it a really crappy couple of days for me. I didn't even know about Sky's gasket, or the 4 threads in here regarding theft, or James blowing up his engine, or Christine's rip roaring time.

I'm thrilled that your world hasn't been affected by any of these things, but mine has.

if you really wanted to list a bunch of bad things that have happend around the world recently, then you could easily mention 1000's and 1000's of people dying in car wrecks, murders, suicides, drug over-doses, fires, drownings, shark attacks, you could go on and on, but why would you want to?

That was never my intention, and I'm sorry you saw it that way. These were each pretty meaningful to me. If I had anything other than genuine feelings about these events, and the amazingly short period of time in which they all happened, I would have come up with a more threatening title for this thread. I'll just keep it to myself next time.

Take care,
-Chris