Close call for my wife, not me, and she never even knew there was a problem.
Using my neighbor's JD 70, about 40 years ago, to do some baling for him. Wife standing by the baler tongue, to put the pin in. I was not familiar with JD hand clutch, and as I was backing up, I pushed the lever the wrong way- instead of stopping, it speeded up, going right toward her. I figured it out at the last second, and stopped quickly, with the drawbar hole perfectly aligned with the baler hitch. She smiled up at me, and said, "Wow, you're really good!" I was sweating bullets and almost sick to my stomach, because she didn't know how close she had come to "buying the farm."
And I never told her. We celebrated our 43rd anniversary this year.
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