The space between two pallets

The title has as much fact as metaphor. Wearing steel toed shoes, of course, lest you twist or break your ankle. Each pallet weighs 1,200 pounds or more, because they're seven or eight feet tall. Inertia and force both work in their favor, 9.8 meters per second squared times mass, because they are going nowhere. Unless some commercially driven licensed operator tries to move them while you're inside the trailer.

Side by side they're two foot breaths apart, which seems far, until you place your feet side by side. Not that easy? Your hips drive your feet into the ground. But your hips are wider than two feet. The angle towards your knees narrows, but not skinny enough for feet to stand side by side. Too bad. You're at least half way into the 53' trailer.

Time to turn around, but you're stuck. Now all you can do is retrace your steps. You have to back up. But the steel toes are strong. Step half off the pallet, and again ankle compromised. Not as easy as you thought. Neither is the straight and narrow. We heard it for years, wide is the way and many there be on the path to destruction. This is not the path towards righteousness. But you would not have been able to get out of that trailer if you tried to turn around.