Spent the night on an old battleship (USS Massachusetts) and got the bottom bunk (of 4). The guy on the bunk directly above me must’ve weighed 300 pounds. When I went to bed nobody was there. Then I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t move. Those bunks were only metal tubing with canvass stretched across them, and this guy’s canvass had sunk so low that it was maybe one inch from my face. Tried to wake the guy, but he was sawing logs and wouldn’t budge. Kept praying that canvass would hold…
Spent the night on an old battleship (USS Massachusetts) and got the bottom bunk (of 4). The guy on the bunk directly above me must’ve weighed 300 pounds. When I went to bed nobody was there. Then I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t move. Those bunks were only metal tubing with canvass stretched across them, and this guy’s canvass had sunk so low that it was maybe one inch from my face. Tried to wake the guy, but he was sawing logs and wouldn’t budge. Kept praying that canvass would hold…