I recall that back in the horse and buggy days you could go out to a pub and get wasted. Then get in your wagon, pass out and the horse knows the way home.
Apparently it was a common gag to switch around your mates horses. They’d end up at each others houses.
I think this r/askhistorians answer is fascinating too.
Black Beauty, published 1877, has a paragraph complaining about drunk carriage drivers and how a friend was permanently injured by one. Single horse in a small town, probably no biggie. Team of horses, not so great.
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I recall that back in the horse and buggy days you could go out to a pub and get wasted. Then get in your wagon, pass out and the horse knows the way home.
Apparently it was a common gag to switch around your mates horses. They’d end up at each others houses.
I think this r/askhistorians answer is fascinating too.
Black Beauty, published 1877, has a paragraph complaining about drunk carriage drivers and how a friend was permanently injured by one. Single horse in a small town, probably no biggie. Team of horses, not so great.
how old are you to remember all that? and so clearly?
[insert Kenneth from 30 Rock being immortal joke here, but yall know Kenneth would never go to a pub]
Its stories passed down from elders.
Best source I can find for written testimony.
If it wasn’t for all the horseshit everywhere that sounds like a simply superior system
I think we have that. It’s called Uber.
Some people do be treating the drivers like animals
A couple dozen billionaires to be specific.
They said without the horseshit everywhere.