Do you ever miss the days that your every moment wasn't captured by some camera and then plastered across the internet for everyone to see?
Nah, me neither, it's more fun this way.
Once upon a time a video of a woman appearing to get stuck in a slide would be caught on the family camcorder that your dad wouldn't have let anyone else use and be played maybe once or twice for the amusement of friends and relatives.
These days it can wind up online and be enjoyed by millions around the world, and now you know all about it too.
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Back in 2022, TikToker Paige Hodgson posted a video of her mum zooming around a waterslide on a Norwegian Cruise Lines ship named Bliss, which was off the coast of Mexico at the time.
She was doing fine, right up until the point where her momentum gave out and gravity kicked back in.
Her mum was dragged back down to a lower part of the slide which was dangling over the side of the cruise ship before a blast of water pushed her forwards again, though not enough to propel her further up the tube.
"How long do you think she was stuck?" Paige asked her TikTok followers, but many of them seemed more worried about the claustrophobia of being stuck in a plastic tube hanging over the side of a cruise ship.
One person described it as 'my kind of nightmare' and wondered how the woman got out of the waterslide.
Someone else said 'my claustrophobia would get claustrophobic', and a third bemoaned 'the anxiety I'm getting for just watching'.
Another said it was 'so triggering' to watch the video as they'd gone through the same thing, but they did explain that the slide has an emergency escape hatch which people can use to get out.
Considering the woman would have had to make a gravity-defying turn to continue along her way it was lucky that plenty of people were saying this waterslide had a way out for people who lost momentum part-way.
At least you'd hope that was the case and they weren't just making it up for internet points.
Some of the commenters said they'd been on this same exact slide and become stuck themselves, with one person admitting they 'got stuck in this exact water slide 5 separate times' and they 'don't know why I kept doing it'.
Among all the people saying they'd have a 'claustrophobic panic attack' there weren't many who said they'd want to go on this slide.
LADbible have contacted Norwegian Cruise Line for comment.
Topics: Cruise Ship, Travel, TikTok
Joe Harker