Common assumptions about horsey people...

toppedoff said:
That once you've fallen off you can't get back on 🤣🤣🤣

My mum was quite gobsmacked that people got on after they took on the floor and got back up
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It's like a bike: if you fall and you're capable of standing, you get straight back on.
 
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Pinkvboots said:
I look after my friends horses when she goes away it's her retired 17h coloured maxi cob and a 11h yearling coloured colt, last time I went my oh wanted to walk down with me and as soon as he sees them he says aww is that the little ones mum🤣🤣

Hilarious 😂 the 17h is a gelding
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I had a Piebald cob gelding and a Piebald mini shetland. Of course I got asked all the time if the shetland was the other one’s baby.
 
Elf On A Shelf said:
Because I work in racing people assume that I know what horses are going to win. Yes of course I know what horse is going to win every race that day 🙄 I'm clearly so good at gambling that I am still working with the things rather than owning them from afar sipping mojitos on the beach in the Bahamas! 🙄
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Mind reader tipster 🤣
 
Yes all of the above pretty much.

However, by far my most niche assumption was when I was told (not asked, there was not a hint of questioning tone), that horse riding women have big clits because of the saddle friction enlarging them. He then explained that he had found this out because his ex had a horse.

I had no words. None.
 
DabDab said:
Yes all of the above pretty much.

However, by far my most niche assumption was when I was told (not asked, there was not a hint of questioning tone), that horse riding women have big clits because of the saddle friction enlarging them. He then explained that he had found this out because his ex had a horse.

I had no words. None.
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W h a t ?
 
DabDab said:
Yes all of the above pretty much.

However, by far my most niche assumption was when I was told (not asked, there was not a hint of questioning tone), that horse riding women have big clits because of the saddle friction enlarging them. He then explained that he had found this out because his ex had a horse.

I had no words. None.
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Ah, I love a sample size of one. Solid study.
 
I have had most of the above reactions at some time or another, but most often these days it is the slightly sideways look, the look askance, because you are something completely outside the normal range of people they encounter. You are an alien being, as though from another planet.
 
Many years ago when my daughter was small I’d had a break from horses, completely. So my new friends had no idea I was even horsey.
Until one day I announced I was getting a pony- said pony was actually out on loan while I had a baby who was by then 4 but I’d owned him since I was at school. This was met by great shock and amusement, did I realise you couldn’t just put a horse in the garden, you needed to be minted to own a horse and so on.
Friends son who was 8/9 was mind blown though “but she’s not a horse lady, she wears normal clean clothes and shoes and doesn’t smell or have bits in her hair”
We cried at his obvious *maybe correct* perception of horse owners as a young boy 😂😂
 
Elf On A Shelf said:
Because I work in racing people assume that I know what horses are going to win. Yes of course I know what horse is going to win every race that day 🙄 I'm clearly so good at gambling that I am still working with the things rather than owning them from afar sipping mojitos on the beach in the Bahamas! 🙄
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Haha! Yes I used to get that “got any tips”
What’s about X trainers horse running tomorrow….
If I knew all the winners I’d be very rich!!!
 
I don't have a lie in on weekends this time of year so we're out early for a good walk. It's really the only way. It does not cool off in the evening so much and then all of the coyotes and other wild creatures come out!
 
The assumption that just because I've got a horse that I'm going to let everybody else's children ride it. The amount of times I've had strangers walk past the yard and ask "do I give lesson's?" No I'm not a riding school and nowhere does it say that I'm going to let your little darlings anywhere near my big darling.
 
windswoo said:
The assumption that just because I've got a horse that I'm going to let everybody else's children ride it. The amount of times I've had strangers walk past the yard and ask "do I give lesson's?" No I'm not a riding school and nowhere does it say that I'm going to let your little darlings anywhere near my big darling.
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We get that a lot despite the sign on the gate saying Racing Yard 😂😂😂
 
windswoo said:
The assumption that just because I've got a horse that I'm going to let everybody else's children ride it. The amount of times I've had strangers walk past the yard and ask "do I give lesson's?" No I'm not a riding school and nowhere does it say that I'm going to let your little darlings anywhere near my big darling.
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Got this one a few days ago! Errrrrr..... No 🙅
 
Elf On A Shelf said:
We get that a lot despite the sign on the gate saying Racing Yard 😂😂😂
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I'd love to see the little kiddies have ago on your horses!! 😁
Annoyingly my horse is really good when complete novices have sat on him, so would probably be an angel.
Kunoichi73 - I got my stamps yesterday. I really like them so going to get a little frame and hang them up. - Deviating again.
 
millikins said:
I had another driving one. I was in my gateway about to get on the cart and set off when a white van pulled up. The driver leaned out and said "I'm working on a house down the road love, there's a copper cylinder on the grass if you want to pick it up." Then he drove off leaving me speechless :D
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I would have - have you seen the price of copper?
 
I think non-horsey people always assume, usually just after having told us how they got 'bolted with' or thrown off when they were younger, that we haven't experienced the same and that if we had we'd be put off just like they were. Rather than we have experienced it a million times and some weird part of our brain just responds 'try it again, that was your fault'
 
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