Even Vegans Get Scared Sometimes

I reside in a twenty story retrofitted building from the 70s. Okay, it's an old casino. But, it's an old casino with a fresh coat of paint and many walls busted down and moved to make cute little condos. When I drive home at night, I try not to think as I'm entering the dungeon that is my underground parking garage about the happenings that have no doubt gone on inside my newly refurbished surroundings. I believe it is a real estate law that if the home you are about to purchase housed a drug ring, prostitution outfit, or saw a murder, that you the buyer are entitled to the details. Perhaps this law does not apply after a certain number of these occurrences. Just as the Star Spangled Banner is considered in the public domain so to must be the undeniable truth about where I live. I'm sure had I turned to the real estate agent during the walk through and asked, "So, did a deranged homicidal pimp reside here in the past?" She would have had no problem looking me straight in the eye and saying, "Well, duh!" There are just some things you cannot control.
I've been thinking a lot about this concept lately as we in Reno, NV have experienced some 600 minor to moderate earthquakes in the last month. The last week of which I have felt five. I felt the moderate ones. The first wave came at 3:45 in the afternoon last Thursday. I was home alone with the kitties when what I thought was a strong breeze quickly reveled itself into a nightmarish 4.1 quake. The second wave would hit not seven minutes later as I... was on the toilet- a very fortunate place to be if you are going to pee your pants anyway. Never have I felt such hysteria, such fear. There was nowhere safe to be. I was at the mercy of a force much bigger than myself. This was not the kind of fear I experience when contemplating an afterlife or whether or not that dead hooker stoner might possess me in my sleep, this was something real.
I want us all to think truly and honestly about fear. Think only of the kind, or course, that you can see and feel. Hypothetical situations will not do. When a cow, free range or not, is faced with a human, a force much greater than itself, the fear must be overwhelming. The lack of control must multiply this just as it has for all the people living in this old casino turned luxury condominium for the last thirty plus years.