Age inappropriate behaviour ???

[ycbm]

I thought I'd backed my last horse when I did my 6 year old at 3 when I was 60. Then at 62 I went and did a 7 year old, and now at 63 I've just done another 3 year old. Even ten years ago I would have said that was age inappropriate behaviour. When I was 20 I would have thought it was lunacy ?

Young or old, what's your age inappropriate behaviour? Is there any such thing any more?

PS can anyone point me where the catalog is for a toyboy, I fancy expanding my horizons ? ?

 

[Fleece Navidad]

Backing up a track after 90mins xc schooling because you're too excited to walk forwards?
- recently, age 20.

Needing to be lunged after clipping to avoid pogo stick impressions (despite being done multiple times between August and Christmas every year) because it's tickly? Then still doing pogo stick impressions for the saddler despite having been ridden half an hour before to blow away the cobwebs?
- last year, age 19.

Throwing a tantrum because two of the three horses mooching on the track with you are heading in.
- again, recently.

Tbh, I'm delighted that he's feeling so good at the moment, long may it last ?

And I've just realised you meant humans ?

 

[luckyoldme]

I thought I'd backed my last horse when I did my 6 year old at 3 when I was 60. Then at 62 I went and did a 7 year old, and now at 63 I've just done another 3 year old. Even ten years ago I would have said that was age inappropriate behaviour. When I was 20 I would have thought it was lunacy ?

Young or old, what's your age inappropriate behaviour? Is there any such thing any more?

PS can anyone point me where the catalog is for a toyboy, I fancy expanding my horizons ? ?

I love being age inappropriate.
As for toyboys ..I nearly had an opportunity in that I got chatted up by a very attractive man who was of a darker skin tone than my own .
I messed up though.
I told him I was very happily married otherwise I would be there like a rat up a drainpipe.
I totalled the job completely by asking for his phone number in case my husband died.
At that point I could see he had very bad taste and didn't like my patter.

 

[HollyWoozle]

PS can anyone point me where the catalog is for a toyboy, I fancy expanding my horizons ? ?

Not specifically for toyboys but I found my fiancé on pof.com and he's my best internet find. I expect there is a good toyboy selection on there!

 

[luckyoldme]

I thought I'd backed my last horse when I did my 6 year old at 3 when I was 60. Then at 62 I went and did a 7 year old, and now at 63 I've just done another 3 year old. Even ten years ago I would have said that was age inappropriate behaviour. When I was 20 I would have thought it was lunacy ?

Young or old, what's your age inappropriate behaviour? Is there any such thing any more?

PS can anyone point me where the catalog is for a toyboy, I fancy expanding my horizons ? ?

In any case 60s nowt these days.
When we were younger it was purple rinse and twin-set.
You certainly don't look like those 60 year olds !

 

[HuskyFluff]

Not as impressive as you, but I'm planning to do my first ODE at the age of 53...

 

[windand rain]

I guess buying a foal for my 65th birthday was a bit presumptious as I like to keep my horses for life

 

[ycbm]

I guess buying a foal for my 65th birthday was a bit presumptious as I like to keep my horses for life

I like your style!
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[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

Not specifically for toyboys but I found my fiancé on pof.com and he's my best internet find. I expect there is a good toyboy selection on there!

You are seriously lucky - I love it! POF is notorious for being a complete waste of time with the people I know who online date..

 

[MidChristmasCrisis]

I am impressed regarding 3 year old and absolutely back your idea for a tomboy!

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Age inappropriate behaviour?

Threatening to shove hacking chums son off a couple of weeks ago ? then coming upsides and almost succeeding having grabbed his knee and swiftly lifted it. His mother was in hysterics of ??

Racing Jennbags earlier this year near Ditchling Beacon (tracks were clear) and cackling with ? till we pulled up....

My friends would probably add much more... ??

 

[HollyWoozle]

You are seriously lucky - I love it! POF is notorious for being a complete waste of time with the people I know who online date..

I know another very successful couple from pof.com as well! I do think I was lucky but I just kept my profile going and didn't respond to 99% of messages, it's definitely true that there are a lot of time-wasters on there though. I happened to find a gem (or rather he found me) and now nearly 5 years down the line we are going strong and he is awesome!

I expect there are plenty of men out there who would love to have an older woman, especially one who can back a young horse.

 

[rabatsa]

Age inappropriate behaviour?

Racing Jennbags earlier this year near Ditchling Beacon (tracks were clear) and cackling with ? till we pulled up....

My friends would probably add much more... ??

My bladder control would not have coped with this one.

 

[Clydiegirl]

PS can anyone point me where the catalog is for a toyboy, I fancy expanding my horizons ? ?

I have a toyboy (kind of, he's only 4 years younger) and I can safely say they're not all they're cracked up to be ? stick with what you've got ??

 

[mini_b]

I totalled the job completely by asking for his phone number in case my husband died.

omg girl after my own heart ?

 

[ecb89]

He’s not a toy boy as he’s 8 years older than me but I met my OH on POF. Getting married next year

 

[seamoth]

Brought a yearling that I thought would be my last at fifty then brought another at sixty backed her at 64 have done our novice and now open endurance would have liked it have got her to advanced two years ago but Covid began so am really hoping that I can get her there at 69. Feeling positive about it at the moment, we shall see as long as you are healthy age is only a number.

 

[Tarragon]

One of the advantages of riding hairy ponies - age inappropriate behaviour is much easier to get away with!

 

[ownedbyaconnie]

Not specifically for toyboys but I found my fiancé on pof.com and he's my best internet find. I expect there is a good toyboy selection on there!

Recently married and had a baby with my Tinder find!

 

[planete]

Bought a very green little cob with a few problems last year at 73 and am finally enjoying our rides on the Forest. I just could not have afforded the finished article. It is a great feeling to be training another horse instead of watching daytime TV which was deemed a suitable occupation for my age by a relative.

 

[JJS]

Not specifically for toyboys but I found my fiancé on pof.com and he's my best internet find. I expect there is a good toyboy selection on there!

My best internet find was on Match. Didn’t really expect anything much from it, but now we’re over two years down and moving in together tomorrow ?

 

[The Irish Draft 2022]

Hahah will it could be worse you could be 90 . I know a a woman in her 70s that jumped 1 m 50 . It gave me anxiety because she definitely would have broken a hip if she fall off .

 

[Landcruiser]

I just bought a two year old who I will back next year. I'll be 62 by then. I think it will be age inappropriate to fall off so I fully intend to do plenty with her this winter to get her ready - but I think I'd rather be backing a youngster than taking up knitting and daytime telly

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Well I did buy a rather stunning 17.3 ID/TB for my 70th birthday pressie hoping he would last me until I was 80. (He is 10). Family very disapproving, they all insisted I should be looking for something smaller and lets say a bit more on the hairy side for my last decade or so of riding.

Unfortunately I only managed to ride him for one wonderful year and now it is one more year on with no riding since last summer, so second year of ownership was a wash out due to my hips crumbling away, but I am just about to have first of two hips replaced and plan to be back on him by next spring. Family even more disapproving now of my plans for the spring. But I don't do anything really risky anymore, only genteel old lady hacking.

 

[J&S]

No such thing as age inappropriateness! What ever we can still do and enjoy is totally appropriate. I have been galloping my old pony in the stubble fields at nearly 75 yrs old, some might say this is is inappropriate but its only the ploughing up of the fields that has stopped me!

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

My best internet find was on Match. Didn’t really expect anything much from it, but now we’re over two years down and moving in together tomorrow ?

Ooooh how exciting!!

 

[paddy555]

I just bought a two year old who I will back next year. I'll be 62 by then. I think it will be age inappropriate to fall off so I fully intend to do plenty with her this winter to get her ready - but I think I'd rather be backing a youngster than taking up knitting and daytime telly

I've never considered age as having much relevance. OH is 9 years older than me and rides 2 horses daily.
I was 61 when I bought Ombu, (Picaflor's half brother) aged 7 months and I backed him at 4.

What counts is experience. You have a stronger sense of self preservation not to fall off and more experience of reading horses as you get older. So, whether you do it consciously or not, you make sure all the steps are covered and there are no short cuts.

Like wind & rain I keep horses for life and I know Criollos are a long lived breed so that is the only "age inappropriate" part that is the problem.

I remember an old girl near us. She was knocking on 90 if she was a day. She had no problem out riing. Different story for the teenager who was trying her best to keep up with her

 

[Birker2020]

I thought I'd backed my last horse when I did my 6 year old at 3 when I was 60. Then at 62 I went and did a 7 year old, and now at 63 I've just done another 3 year old. Even ten years ago I would have said that was age inappropriate behaviour. When I was 20 I would have thought it was lunacy ?

Young or old, what's your age inappropriate behaviour? Is there any such thing any more?

PS can anyone point me where the catalog is for a toyboy, I fancy expanding my horizons ? ?

Last but one time I went to Robin Hill Country Park in the Isle of Wight and I went on the Jungle Heights nets pictured..

Adults were allowed on to supervise their kids, but it was really quiet and no one to supervise so when partner and dog sat and had a coffee and looked on, I had a go. Incredible fun but really hard, some of the nets had large hoop holes that you had to climb through, and then at the end I let go of the sides of the net and fell flat on my face in front of everyone watching sat outside the cafe. So embarrassing but I am capable of laughing at myself. Its a bit like the kind of stuff you do on a team building day. So strenuous.

This time which was only two weeks ago, I didn't go on the nets as it was really busy, but instead I climbed the tree nets (a huge netting system that wrapped around a structure and you had to climb around it - see bottom photo) and also went on the toboggan run and the slides!

I might be the other side of 50 but I'm a big kid at heart. And found it much more fun now I was more mobile due to my weight loss and was much more capable. I also went in their 4D cinema which you sit on a big bench with a seat belt on and watch a film from a big cinema screen in front of you and the rows of seat move and you get blasted with sprays of smells and water typically they are roller coaster type of films.

If you can't carry out age inappropriate behaviour from time to time what's the point in getting old?

 

[Baroque]

Not horsey but I recently discovered the joys of playing Beat Saber in a virtual reality headset. So much fun. And I'm pretty good for an old broad!

 

[Quigleyandme]

I’m 63 too and impulse bought two ID foals at a horse fair in 2019. They went off to Westmeath for 3 weeks in August for pre-training and I’ve had a little sit
on both of them. They‘ll go back to Westmeath in April for backing proper and then I’ll continue their ridden education at home. I actually think having these two since weaning with all the required handling and care has been an asset because I know them inside out and they know me.