Like you’ve never had a horse jump out of gear?
I was on one when it happened. He took off and never stopped till he got to the barn. Scary.
Ah, you pulled the collective up instead of the parking brake!
Full power , high gear now, whoosh!
Ack!
My first horse-sized horse, Gidget.
She had a hard mouth and empty head.
I cannot count the times she took me for a Wild Ride from wherever we were, back to the house which included a 90 degree high speed turn into the yard.
If she came home “empty”, nobody came to look for me.
They knew what had happened.
She’d bolted near a low hanging branch or something and eventually, I’d show up, walking.
She was some kinda “first horse”.
Made a great hellbent for leather rider out of me, though.
LOL