Your story brought back an old memory.
City boy about 12 years old...standing with my back to a barn looking up a cleared hill at my cousin’s 4H, three year old Holstein bull galloping straight at me. Can I make it around the barn to the door or go the other way to and over the fence before he gets to me?
I chose the fence and made it, but it was close.
BTW, unbeknownst to me, the out-of-sight barn door was closed.
LOL! OMG, I imagine if you had gone for the closed barn door, and seen it was closed, there would have been no recourse for you.
Makes me want to post that image of the Templar Knight from “Raiders of The Lost Ark” with a new caption...”He chose...wisely.”
Amazing how fast you can figure out how to open barn doors in a situation like that. lol