1.5 Surviving, better strategy this time

Do you ever get what you want and realize, in that moment, it isn't what you want at all? Super irritating, right? Now imagine that while being held at gunpoint...
This is the story of the second time I almost (perhaps should have) died. Easter Sunday 1999, marked for death at a gas station. And that was the easy part. The hard part is what happened soon thereafter.