On 27-Nov-07, at 4:00 AM, radience87 wrote:

> I am sooooooo terrified of large ships. I accidentally drove close to
> the QUeen Mary down in Long Beach, and I could not breath or even move
> the car to get out of there. What is this all about? And the weird
> thing is, is that I found out that my late grandfather used to take
> off
> the barnacles off the bottom of these huge ships!Weird!

Well, they *are* big and industrial looking, like they could eat you
or squash you, it's not really that hard to believe. I don't think
I'd want to be in the water near one.

I have a bit of a fear of boiler rooms and furnaces and all the pipes
and such, very large mechanical stuff when up close. I don't think
I'd want to go into the boiler room on a ship like that.