Around here they will only give you a shingles vaccine if you are over 60. Although they say shingles starts happening at 50 or so.
"That argument doesn't hold weight. You can still get shingles even after having the chicken pox vaccine. We've never had shingles and Mother Nature seems to have her way, no matter what. I choose to work with her, rather than against her."
You are right, I looked up the chicken pox vaccine - it is a live attenuated (weakened) strain of the virus. So you may get a milder case of pox than if you were exposed to the full strength, natural virus. And you may get shingles. Apparently shingles can show up when your immune system is weakened by other causes, so let's stay healthy.