Following the 'fess up thread - scuzziest thing you've seen a horsey person do?

[lizness]

I used to know someone who used to suck their horses ears and they were a bit scabby (the ears!)
I haver had to go for a wee on a hack whilst holding my horse hiding in some woods

 

[SpruceRI]

OK.... here's mine....

A neighbour once asked if he could have some horse poo as he was creating a 'bog garden'.... he seemed happy with fresh droppings so I agreed to drop off my 'poo' bucket that lived in the lorry.....he wanted loads, so over many months I'd collect the droppings on each journey, and drop the bucket on my way home outside his front gate and swap it for last weeks' empty.

Only, the lorry bucket didn't contain just horse poo. It also contained horse wee, my wee...... and sometimes even my poo!!

There were just occasions when you didn't have time to walk the mile across the showground to the porta-loo. So I went in my lorry bucket!! And so did my friends!!!!!

The used loo paper used to go in a spare carrier bag which was chucked immediately.... so he didn't get the paper too!

We'd just make sure we covered the human 'droppings' with the horse droppings.....shake it about a bit, and my neighbour was none the wiser! My neighbour was very happy with his BOG garden!!!!!!!!

 

[*hic*]

I'm sorry I've got to ask. I can't do showers - the splashing water makes me very itchy and I come up in a rash - but I can and do bath. I bath every evening before bed, every morning I get up and have a wash at the basin. Teeth get cleaned at the same time. Do those people who shower on Friday morning and then not again until Monday morning actually not wash at all in that time? What about teeth cleaning?

I'm sitting here with my skin crawling at the thought of it!

 

[jroz]

I knew someone who once had 2 dogs that would play in the dirty culvert water along the side of the road, roll around in the manure pile, go in a gross pond, etc....and she'd let them sleep in her bed!!

 

[jroz]

I've been known to wash rugs and numnahs in the bath.

Actually, that's the best place to do some of them! Like wool western pads!

 

[kerilli]

SpruceRI, that really is Ewwwww.

must admit i've had to go for a wee while out on a long hack alone, riding and leading! still clearly remember holding 2 horses (both rather amazed) while having a wee, praying fervently that they wouldn't spook at anything and bog off (as it were).
got caught short while practising Roads and Tracks at a 3-day in Germany, that could have been mega-embarrassing but luckily the forest was very dense and my mare was very obliging, bless her!

 

[FionaM12]

I'm rather assuming that those who don't wash all weekend or even sleep in jodhpurs and say there's shavings etc in their beds, sleep alone?

I don't mind getting smelly (I love those stable smells!) but I want to be clean by the time I get in my bed. And the thought of sharing it with someone in the state described above is pretty gross.

 

[Molasses]

Think my scuzziest days were as a kid around horses, would think nothing of eating sandwiches while mid-mucking out without washing hands and loved mixing feeds with bare hands and then licking the oaty/molasses mix off my fingers

tis maybe half the reason no-one of my generation had asthma, allergies etc etc. Seriously if you survive country childhood no bacteria would bother with you after that

 

[FionaM12]

and bog off (as it were).

 

[maxapple]

Goodness, never heard of them or seen before, they don't look very comfortable. Spose come in handy as a funnel is desperate

I'm so niave and innocent

Well considering I can't tie a stock with the instructions next to me - I'd have no chance of making one of those work!!

 

[Jackson]

I'm sorry I've got to ask. I can't do showers - the splashing water makes me very itchy and I come up in a rash - but I can and do bath. I bath every evening before bed, every morning I get up and have a wash at the basin. Teeth get cleaned at the same time. Do those people who shower on Friday morning and then not again until Monday morning actually not wash at all in that time? What about teeth cleaning?

I'm sitting here with my skin crawling at the thought of it!

Teeth, face and hands get cleaned I would like to add that this is a winter thing in the summer showers happen daily!

 

[FionaM12]

Think my scuzziest days were as a kid around horses, would think nothing of eating sandwiches while mid-mucking out without washing hands and loved mixing feeds with bare hands and then licking the oaty/molasses mix off my fingers

tis maybe half the reason no-one of my generation had asthma, allergies etc etc. Seriously if you survive country childhood no bacteria would bother with you after that

I did all those things, had a "country" childhood and have been crippled all my life with asthma and allergies.

I don't know if I'm your generation but asthma and allergies were always there, believe me.

 

[sheep]

Oh yes, would just like to point out that the Friday-Sunday thing is not a frequent occurrence, and on those days, I do still wash, just not 'properly' in the shower!

ETS: Oh, and I don't smell *that* bad, my mare is on full livery,

 

[PorkChop]

It seems it is official ..... I am "scuzzy"

All of the above (nearly)

 

[Carefreegirl]

I love this thread. The thought of dirty people in dirty beds though is gross. My dogs aren't allowed in the bedrooms let alone on the beds. There's nothing better than getting in a bed that smells of washing powder. Horse pee sheets and pillow cases ? Euuuugh yuck

 

[kerilli]

I love this thread. The thought of dirty people in dirty beds though is gross. My dogs aren't allowed in the bedrooms let alone on the beds. There's nothing better than getting in a bed that smells of washing powder. Horse pee sheets and pillow cases ? Euuuugh yuck

must admit i'm with you on that! i sleep in the buff and i'm mega-fussy about no yard clothes EVER coming into contact with the sheets, pillows etc... i got ringworm on my tummy as a kid and never want it again, and the doctor put the fear of god into me about horsey germs on bare tummy skin etc!
and as for the people who cba to have a shower for the whole weekend... fair enough, but haven't you ever heard of a flannel?!
i guess that if your bed's filthy with shavings etc, then there's no point getting clean to get into it... :O

 

[TheoryX1]

Well, both Mini TX and I are officially 'Scuzzy', as am guilty of peeing in stables, in our trailer (well, our horses do it), and not washing from Friday night to Monday morning if we arent going out and are spending the weekend at the yard. Have to admit dont mix wormer up in cups we use on the yard though, and dont have a dog either.

Going back 4 years ago Mini TX unexpectedly qualified for the PC national champs at eventing. The Area competition was very late and we desperately needed to get an official signature to send the form off to enter. We had to visit the house of a PC official in our area, who was very posh and had a massive house. I remember walking in and feeling quite disgusted. It was the filthiest house I have ever been in (dont forget I am an estate agent, I see lots of scuzzy houses .....), and we declined the proferred drink, got the signature and left. We both came out itching, with lots of flea bites. Yuck!

The worst one I know of is from our YO. A couple of years ago she was grooming for her business partner at Blenheim. They stayed in their lorry, and also shared it with a 'name' (who will be nameless) as well, as their lorry was off games. Well, YO was sleeping in the bottom bunk and 'name' in the top bunk. The 'name' slept every night in a t shirt and pants. YO said that as she climbed up the bunk bed ladder, she could see it was the same pair of pants for the whole of the event, from arriving a couple of days before, to the last day of competition. I do see this person around as she has taught Mini TX on the odd occasion, and she was a guest at YO's wedding not so long ago. Makes me cringe, particularily when I see their name in H&H ........... No, I'm not naming and shaming, even via pm, as she is a really nice person!

 

[Kiribati_uk]

OK.... here's mine....

A neighbour once asked if he could have some horse poo as he was creating a 'bog garden'.... he seemed happy with fresh droppings so I agreed to drop off my 'poo' bucket that lived in the lorry.....he wanted loads, so over many months I'd collect the droppings on each journey, and drop the bucket on my way home outside his front gate and swap it for last weeks' empty.

Only, the lorry bucket didn't contain just horse poo. It also contained horse wee, my wee...... and sometimes even my poo!!

There were just occasions when you didn't have time to walk the mile across the showground to the porta-loo. So I went in my lorry bucket!! And so did my friends!!!!!

The used loo paper used to go in a spare carrier bag which was chucked immediately.... so he didn't get the paper too!

We'd just make sure we covered the human 'droppings' with the horse droppings.....shake it about a bit, and my neighbour was none the wiser! My neighbour was very happy with his BOG garden!!!!!!!!

Please say this is a wind up???????

 

[Sol]

I'm rather assuming that those who don't wash all weekend or even sleep in jodhpurs and say there's shavings etc in their beds, sleep alone?

I don't mind getting smelly (I love those stable smells!) but I want to be clean by the time I get in my bed. And the thought of sharing it with someone in the state described above is pretty gross.

If boyfriend doesn't like, he can move back home I wash twice a day, but don't shower every day. Quite frankly, I find that showing/bathing makes me bloody itch (sensitive skin!) so couldn't stand it daily. Not to mention no matter what I do, waist length hair ends up drenched (annoying and takes forever to dry), and also simply dries my skin out if I do. I don't stink - at least nobody else seems to complain!


Bits have gone in the dishwasher before, clean my tack with a tea towel on my lap (does then go in the wash). Happy to chuck bits of horse muck in the barrow without gloves & rarely wash hands at yard (but often eat) as there is never a towel about and I hate wet hands/jeans/jods!! Rugs/bandages/saddlecloths etc go in washing machine. Tack gets cleaned with water in the washing up bowl!
However... I really detest the idea of dog bowls etc being washed in the sink? For some reason horse dirt of any description bothers me very little, but dog drool & dog coat grease... just make me feel sick!! Cat food also. I have no issue with cats or dogs though...

 

[sakura]

and suddenly my house seems pristine!

I always knew I was a clean and tidy person, but now after reading this I seem borderline OCD lol

cleaning hands is one of my biggest things, I cannot stand dirty or even sticky hands!

 

[Puppy]

OK.... here's mine....

A neighbour once asked if he could have some horse poo as he was creating a 'bog garden'.... he seemed happy with fresh droppings so I agreed to drop off my 'poo' bucket that lived in the lorry.....he wanted loads, so over many months I'd collect the droppings on each journey, and drop the bucket on my way home outside his front gate and swap it for last weeks' empty.

Only, the lorry bucket didn't contain just horse poo. It also contained horse wee, my wee...... and sometimes even my poo!!

There were just occasions when you didn't have time to walk the mile across the showground to the porta-loo. So I went in my lorry bucket!! And so did my friends!!!!!

The used loo paper used to go in a spare carrier bag which was chucked immediately.... so he didn't get the paper too!

We'd just make sure we covered the human 'droppings' with the horse droppings.....shake it about a bit, and my neighbour was none the wiser! My neighbour was very happy with his BOG garden!!!!!!!!

Oh my good god, that is absolutely disgusting!

Your neighbour thought he was getting horse manure and you were giving him human feces...???

*vomit*

 

[*hic*]

Teeth, face and hands get cleaned I would like to add that this is a winter thing in the summer showers happen daily!

OMG, so your "nether regions" just get left?

* *hic* trundles off for a bath, squirming*

 

[Pearlsasinger]

I was at a Stewards meeting for a local agricultural show, the Horse Secretary had prepared a buffet supper for us. The rather well-to-do lady who usually did the commentary for the show-jumping (also ADC for area Scouts) was in the kitchen when one of the farm-cats jumped up onto the table and removed a piece of tomato from a quiche, w-t-d lady shooed the cat away, picked up the piece of tomato from the table and fitted it back onto the quiche!

We bought a horse from a couple who ran a restaurant, we were shown through the restaurant into the kitchen to talk to the woman. In the kitchen was a huge side of beef, with some slices on the serving dish, waiting to be sent out to the diners. Next to the serving dish was a selection of horse-wormers. Several years later we happened to meet someone who used to have a holiday job at the restaurant, she told us that it was not unusual for her to be asked to go and muck-out in between serving meals.
The restaurant closed down now - not sure whether Environmental Health had something to do with that!

 

[midi]

I used to know someone who used to suck their horses ears and they were a bit scabby (the ears!)

wait wut???

 

[*hic*]

The worst one I know of is from our YO. A couple of years ago she was grooming for her business partner at Blenheim. They stayed in their lorry, and also shared it with a 'name' (who will be nameless) as well, as their lorry was off games. Well, YO was sleeping in the bottom bunk and 'name' in the top bunk. The 'name' slept every night in a t shirt and pants. YO said that as she climbed up the bunk bed ladder, she could see it was the same pair of pants for the whole of the event, from arriving a couple of days before, to the last day of competition. I do see this person around as she has taught Mini TX on the odd occasion, and she was a guest at YO's wedding not so long ago. Makes me cringe, particularily when I see their name in H&H ........... No, I'm not naming and shaming, even via pm, as she is a really nice person!

Might just be like me. I prefer to have matching bra and knickers so I buy two or three bras and five or six pairs of matching knickers. It might look as though I'm wearing the same set every day for five or six days but I certainly won't be!

 

[Capriole]

might have been her lucky pants

 

[I*HM]

My horsie friends and I are a right bunch of dirty, scuzzy people so!
We do the not wasing at weekends/holidays... it's actually got the point where we debated whether going to a pony club dinner was worthy of a post ride shower (well, it'll just be horsie people there!). Us two smellies were following a hunt today on foot and ended up in a jeep with a bunch of random people, one started giving out about her child not washing the morning of the hunt. My friend and my reply was "sure why would he?". Queue many shocked faces (from the non horsie contingent) so we had to explain that if you're going to be round horses anyway, what's wrong with not washing and just smelling like horse for the weekend, you only need to wash if you're going out in real public etc. Queue shocked faces from the rest of the horsie people in the jeep

My yard clothes get worn for erm... a while before seeing the washing machine! At the yard I rarely wash my hands, regularly munch on crisps/polos (pulled out of a pocket full of horse hair and feed) with either hairy gloves or muddy fingers or chatting to friends mucking out stables. Have eaten sandwiches on horseback that spent two hours in a saddle bag against a hot horse

Don't put bits and such in the dishwish, but that's not because I worry about slobbery bits next to my tea mug, I just hate,hate, HATE bits of food left on plates etc and the idea of food being swirled round my stirrups is just yuck!

Dogs and cats sleep in/on bed, room looks like a bomb hit a cross between a tack room and a clothes store. Animal hairs are everywhere and muddy boots/wellies/chaps occasionally get past the hall and end up on the bedroom floor. Normally have to remove yard jackets etc off bed to actually use it and I'm still in the same jods I put on at 8 this morning

Scuzziest thing I've seen - Very posh friend used her grandfather's wire toothpick thing to clean the threads on her stirrups

 

[MrsMozart]

I'm suddenly feeling Stepford Wives-ish regarding my house (that's a first lol).

I used to stand in the muck heap and eat lunch in the winter - best and only way of getting warm feet!

 

[niagaraduval]

I am OCD about having clean hands lol, they are washed about 30 times a day, sometimes more.

I have a huge thing about getting tetanos as horse people should be vaccinated every 5 years instead of every 10 and I have become obsessed with washing my hands and avoiding putting ANYTHING in my mouth at all with dirty hands...

 

[dollymix]

This is the funniest- and grossest thread I've read for a loooonnnngg time

I have to own up to peeing in stables, eating sandwiches at yard (nowhere to wash) and wearing same stables clothes for a few days in a row... But never washing bits etc in the dishwasher with my crockery, or not showering for days... Although one could argue why bother if I'm going to put on the same minging