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THE FRONT PORCH — I just shared a video of a plane landing at the world's most dangerous airport. Now I'm giving you a giant cruise ship deftly maneuvering through homes to a port in a small village. I guess I have traveling on the brain.
This short film posted by The New Yorker titled, "When the Giant Cruise Ship Came to Town" shows massive cruise liners floating by the small homes in the Norwegian town of Stavanger. Watching this huge ship back into port in between other liners and homes is almost hard to believe. Driving a boat causes me more anxiety than just about anything else. What's worse, I own one.
Before you all get impressed with the extreme cash flow I get from writing Have You Seen This? articles, I should explain the boat. I bought it from my uncle last summer. It's a 1993 and it nearly fits in the palm of my hand. It holds four humans, if none of those humans weighs more than a buck 20. If I jump in as a member of the 200-pound-and-over club, we can get three in. We can throw in a fourth but we'll ride pretty low and cap at about seven miles an hour.
Anyway, my uncle took me out on the boat to show me how it worked. He then gave me the wheel and told me to take a couple of laps and then head for the dock. As we got the the dock, not only did I approach it all wrong, I crashed right into the thing. I was actually happy with how it went considering what could have happened.
With that confidence I looked at my uncle and said, "Well, that could have gone worse."
He looked at me in all sincerity and asked, "How?"
I'll continue to learn how to drive my pocket-size motorboat and we can all enjoy the juxtaposition and precision of this video.
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