Lucy Freaks Out at Carwash

This Lucy has claustrophobia!! How about you? It used to be that going through a car wash such as one at BP or any other gas station was a normal activity that I could handle! HOWEVER, that has changed over the past few years, and I no longer find it amusing or fun to go through these car washes!!! My husband and son took me through one this past Sunday to "help" me get over my claustrophobia, and I was SO relieved when we were out of there!

The last car wash that I drove through was about two years ago, and I freaked out. I kept thinking what if those big machines malfunction, and we can't get out of there? I just tried to stay calm and say some prayers. When we got to the last step and that bar came down in front of our car and came towards my windshield, I was none too calm. I didn't remember seeing it before! I guess the telephone pole that had rolled down in front of me (on the windshield) about ten years ago when a young man hit it to avoid hitting our son in the backseat, (Our car had died.) left a pretty traumatizing mark upon me. It was explained to me by my very calm and laid back husband and son on Sunday that that bar is there on purpose to keep the car from going too fast and can be dried by the hot air shooting out! I just don't like being surrounded by those big machines! I wonder how many people are as freaked out as I am about these car washes!
Just call me goofy! :)