"'He was old and sick. Couldn't chew his food anymore. I would have done it myself but I don't have a gun."
As if the bad situation couldn't get any worse, Kenny wasn't having a psychotic break down after all. Tub on the other hand could not have taken this very well. I would like to think that shooting your friend is troubling enough, but shooting your friend for no reason must be traumatizing. However, this whole short story questions what traumatizing really is. I myself would draw the line at almost getting ran over by my friends, but that didn't seem to phase Tub. Then, he shoots his friend on accident, but he manages to make it through that one and reconnect with Frank. Most importantly, they don't even make it to the hospital! Their friend died on their watch, but it's just thrown in there as if it's a trivial fact!
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