[Jeff Higgins]

I've had more MRI's than I can remember. I don't fit inside most of the tubes very well. I'm rather large... But that's my fault, as I've explained in other threads - I just spent too much time in the gym, and found I packed it on rather easily. So, in the smaller MRI tubes, I really have to scrunch up my shoulders and arms just to get in. I swear at times I thought they were going to have to grease me up. Anyway, even the most generous of them are very tight for me. There is no way I could get myself out if something failed, just not enough wiggle room.

That said, I usually fall asleep. That, in spite of the fact that my very worst way to die would be to be nailed inside a coffin and buried alive. One so confining that I couldn't move. Like an MRI tube.

I attribute this to all the time I used to spend inside the wings in the fuel tanks of various commercial aircraft. Or up inside of the vertical stabilizer (you can climb all the way to the top inside on a 747, looking out the marker light cavity on the top forward tip). Or behind the aft pressure bulkhead, of up above the nose gear well under the cockpit, or under the passenger compartment where the wings meet, or other such confined spaces. I would sometimes spend entire shifts inside those places, only coming out for lunch and to relieve myself. I guess I just got used to it.