["When I was a teenager I went tandem skydiving. This involved a total stranger being strapped to my back and jumping out of a plane. Thinking back on it now, I had to put a lot of trust that that dude wasn't a psycho murderer."]
Wow that definitely sounds like a crazy situation!
I went skydiving many years ago and jumped out of a plane with someone strapped to my back. They had the parachute. They could have let me loose anytime they felt like it. I had a lot of trust that they were going to get me to the ground.