Best quote you've heard a "non-horsey" person say?

I heard the eternally annoying non-horsey question today - guy in work asks my boss how many horses she's got, she replies 'two', to which he says (cringe) 'what do you need two for? You can only ride one at a time'. Euch. If he'd bothered to ask further, she'd have told him one is a 24yo cob x she's had since she was 10, and the other is a rescue pony, 11hh sec a! So in fact mister, she rides neither of them!

All I could do was roll my eyes...
 
Was watching at a show with my mum. A smallish pony (welsh B I think) was unloaded from a lorry. It was very excited and kept neighing. My mum asked if it was calling because its mum was somewhere at the show!
 
annagain said:
A little boy visited our yard and was watching the geldings in the field when one of them decided he wanted a wee. The little boy got very excited and shouted:
"Mummy, mummy that horse has got a fold-away willy. I want one!"

His mum was mortfied, we were laughing too much to console her!
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Hehe had a similar moment with some kids from the RS I used to help at. They used to ask the best things :D Most memorable being... have any of these horses laid eggs, have any of them been into space, whats that (points at willy), why has my pony not had any babies (said pony was a gelding so whole new explanation :o), also had the steak one must be a common misconception :confused: and why is my pony orange? :cool:
 
I have an appy and have been asked more than once when riding through the village if he's a giant dalmatian:p

Also heard one guy in a car I was passing saying to his kids in the back seat 'oh look it's a leopard',that did make me lol:D
 
Museum curator- 'in battle lines warriors used loud battle cries to scare the enemies horses'

4 year old daughter-'why did they do that?'

Non horsey OH- 'because plastic bags hadn't been invented.'

4 year old daughter nods head as though this makes perfect sense...
 
I try not to go down the "I have horses" route with non-horsey people, because inevitably they want to know if I do what Mark Todd does and then I have to explain that no, I endurance ride (no jumping) and that frequently leads to comments like "poor horse".

Which just infuriates me. :mad:
 
The one I hate is the men who think girls ride for 'that' reason. fgs We don't sit on that bit! I always end up trying to explain i love my horse but in an appropriate manner.
 
Just been reminded by someone else's post of something my mother said at the first meet of the season. I was keeping an eye out to see who had brought a pacer, and had spotted three coming towards where we were stood and was trying to remember their racing names.

Now bearing in mind that for the last 9 years all we have owned are Standardbreds and the fact that we go harness racing every season, I was quite surprised when my mum pointed at a horse which had a huge blaze and four white socks, and said 'that's an unusual pacer, they don't usually have so much white on them'.

No mum, they don't. But that horse is a 14hh chestnut cob, not a Standardbred! I don't think she's been taking any of it in...:rolleyes:
 
I get mad comments a lot,

Its amazing how many people are shocked that I have to go to the yard twice a day! They say "Why do you have to go every day? Dont the riding school feed them?"

Best one was when I started my current job and my new boss was asking about my horse, and then asked "so...how do you make your money?"

SERIOUSLY?

I come here to work!

he thought I hire him out or teach riding.

A woman who I worked for said she saw a blind horse on the way to work

Puzzled I asked how the heck she knew it was blind doing 70 down the M6 in rush hour traffic, yes the "blindfold" gave it away!

LOL!
 
I let my OH have a ride on a little cob we had after him constantly saying he wanted to SJ. When he got on he said " it's not as stable as it looks, you could actually fall off this" really? That's never happened before!
 
Years ago when I was on holiday in the New Forest with my mum and dad, we went to a trekking centre.

A little boy was sat on a pony and when we started to move off he started shouting "Aaah! It's soo wobbly!" :D

A little while ago I was talking to a cleaner at work and she asked what I was doing over the weekend and I told her I was going to Burghley. She wished me good luck - she thought I was competing.

One of my colleagues follows horse racing and once asked me if I'd ever considered racing Bentley... think he'd have more chance of eating his way through the fences then going over them!!
 
Took my 9 year nephew on a trekking ride in Australia and was filling in his evaluation form with him reading over my shoulder:

Me: Tick Beginner box
Him: 'I'm not a beginner! I've ridden once before'

Same nephew, same ride after some 'fast work' - a tiny trot.

'I think I will just do the walking, that trotting hurts my boys bits and my horse prefers walking.'
 
I was overheard yesterday talking about colic by the builder at the yard. Later on he asks what this colic looks like. So as i begin to explain a few symptoms he stops me with ''no what does it actually look like, as in how big does it grow? And is it also yellow?
Poor chap actually believed colic grew like a plant.
 
Last week, a fellow livery at my yard (YES, a fellow horse owner!) asked me how old my horse was, I said "almost 18..." And she said "oh so he must be nearly fully grown now then..."!!

Erm, yes.
 
My friend came to see Jock once. I explained what the different brushes are for and showed her how to use them. She started brushing and he lazily turned his head as he'd heard something.
"Why is he moving!?"
"Er, becasue he's a living animal, and, like a lot of living animals, he does move..."
She actually got used to him (and the other horses, including a 17.2hh Clydie!:eek:) very quickly and by the time we were about to go home she was happily walking under Jock's neck while he was vigerously pulling at his haynet ;)
 
DreamingIsBelieving said:
My friend came to see Jock once. I explained what the different brushes are for and showed her how to use them. She started brushing and he lazily turned his head as he'd heard something.
"Why is he moving!?"
"Er, becasue he's a living animal, and, like a lot of living animals, he does move..."
She actually got used to him (and the other horses, including a 17.2hh Clydie!:eek:) very quickly and by the time we were about to go home she was happily walking under Jock's neck while he was vigerously pulling at his haynet ;)
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That is hilarious!
 
Mine is similar.. Asked why i had lessons by sister, who genuinely believed that because i had won half a dozen rosettes for lead rein gymkhana at 7, that I am was a champion rider, who knows everything there is to know about horses! I wish!
 
A work colleague- oh, you've got a horse, haven't you?
Me- yes
Her- I'm going to get one for my daughter- she wants a horse or a dog but I can't be bothered to walk a dog everyday...

Once I'd explained that on average I spend three hours minimum at the yard she decided on a hamster!!
 
A girl who i used to know from school
'so what are you doing at the weekend?'
me 'oh just going riding'
her: whats your horse called?
me: i ride different ones they are racehorses
her: OMG so you actually ride them on the tv like the short people do?! like the one who was on im a celebrity? ive always wanted to know one of them!!!

I wish!!!!

step dad watching royal ascot: 'core they must feed that frankel a few bits of meat to get him looking like that!!' deadly serious!!!
 
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