Under Pressure

At Disneyland there are signs for every ride indicating who can and can't ride. These signs are very important to me.
If there was a height limit, something about speed or dropping, or you couldn't be with child I was OUT!
If pregnant women, handicapped people, and people holding babies could ride something, I was set.
On the It's a Small World ride, they literally roll the wheelchairs onto the boats. I was pumped about this ride!

Now, I am claustrophobic.

There is a submarine ride that follows the Finding Nemo theme. On the warning sign at the beginning of the line it warns that if you can't handle enclosed spaces you shouldn't ride. I figured I'd be fine..

No matter how spacious it was, as soon as I was in my seat and they closed the hatch, my blood pressure went through the roof. My logical side kicked in and told me to chill out...my illogical side was panicking that we were going to sink, run out of air, that we'd be trapped in this cartoon like submarine till we all DIED!!!

Once the ride got going and the pretty music started playing I was able to chill a little bit. I focused on taking pictures and pretending that we weren't under water b/c knowing that brought on all of the illogical thoughts of being trapped and wanting to scream "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE IN HERE!" I pretended that the stuff outside the window was just some Disney magic and was really just a video. We were NOT under water.
This illusion I'd created kept me from hyperventilating and sucking the limited amount of precious oxygen out of the air where it needed to be to keep me and the small children alive.

So parents, you're welcome! My delusions saved your children.