Funnies please - silly mistakes you have made

Isaachristmas said:
I used to regularly set off on a hack an get down the lane to realise I had forgotten to put my hat on.


That reminds me of another one of mine. A couple of winters ago I went out for a long hack wearing my silky black under-helmet balaclava thingy and forgot to put my hat on top. I'd said hello to people, waved thanks at endless cars...it wasn't until I saw the horse riding scuba diver looking back at me from a reflection in a parked car window that I twigged. At that point I was about 3 miles from home :eek::eek::eek:
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ZondaR said:
I gave my tack a very thorough cleaning, soap and leather dressing and everything. It looked fantastic. I then tacked up to go for a super shiney clean ride. It is my habit to hold the saddle flap up with my head as I tighten the girth before mounting (my horse is 16:2 and I am 5 foot 3). So I was pulling up on an oiled girth strap when my hand slipped off and I punched myself quite hard on the nose. I didn't know whether to laugh of cry.
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omg ive done this so many times you are not alone! i do it when its raining after a ride too! ahh :D:p
 
Arrived at a BD competition, went to tack up and discovered no girth... This coming from the queen of organisation! I had packed the lorry and Mr W quietly disappeared to find a girth to borrow, on his return he vey quietly said... " I am so glad you packed the lorry as if I had done this I would now be dead!"
 
Loaded trailer for comp and headed off 100 + miles round trip, got there to find i had left the key to the tack area at home ..... Got start time pushed to later, then had to take the door off the hinges to get my tack out, didnt do that again.
 
Once went to get one my pony, not noticing that the reins were not over her head. I merrily got on, was tightening stirrups when the pony got a fright, and bolted. Cue me clinging on to the bit rings, screaming! I did manage to stop though, although I felt stupid!
 
ZondaR said:
I gave my tack a very thorough cleaning, soap and leather dressing and everything. It looked fantastic. I then tacked up to go for a super shiney clean ride. It is my habit to hold the saddle flap up with my head as I tighten the girth before mounting (my horse is 16:2 and I am 5 foot 3). So I was pulling up on an oiled girth strap when my hand slipped off and I punched myself quite hard on the nose. I didn't know whether to laugh of cry.
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I had to chuckle at this because I have done exactly the same thing - hurts doesn't it!
 
Punched myself in the face numerous times whilst girthing - always fun!
Attempted a scary yellow winged upright jump on my sisters horse who took offence to the colour, he went one way and I came off out the side door thinking "uh-oh gonna land on the poles!" strangely it was like I suddenly became feather light and floated to the ground (softest landing I've ever had!) and then gently rolled once and nudged the wing with my side. Giggled myself silly and sheepishly looked around to see if anyone had noticed... no one had thankfully :D
My favourite one ever though was in my last job I was a working as a groom, stable hand and trainee instructor. On my day off I went up to ride my horse, tacked up and went down to the school which was filled with some of the kids I taught and their parents and ponies. Took the boy into the middle to mount up out of the way of everyone and stupidly forgot to tighten my girth first. Got my foot in the stirrup and went to hop up and the whole saddle slid sideways! :eek: Thankfully I landed back on my feet and not my butt (which I would have deserved) and everyone came rushing over to check that I was alright! :o Que a very embarrassed me telling the kids "see, now that is definitely NOT how it's supposed to be done!" :p Luckily my horse was a star about it and just stood there good as gold apart from the face that said quite clearly "stupid human!" :D
I've also been reduced to tears after a friend was legged onto her pony a little too hard by my YM before the yard I worked at. She went up and right over the other side landing squarely on her bum which had us all giggling ourselves silly for ages after! She couldn't even get back on she was laughing so hard :D
 
I went hunting without my jodphurs on!! I was wearing white thermals and in my haste not to be late, forgot to put my jods on top - what a wally!
 
Worried1 said:
Arrived at a BD competition, went to tack up and discovered no girth... This coming from the queen of organisation! I had packed the lorry and Mr W quietly disappeared to find a girth to borrow, on his return he vey quietly said... " I am so glad you packed the lorry as if I had done this I would now be dead!"
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So true! Poor Mr W :p:D
 
Tacked up pony who was standing next to the fence. Went to lead him away and he refused to move despite a hard tug. Realised that when I had girthed him up the girth had not only gone round pony but also the fence rail and he was girthed to the fence. :p
 
Hahaha Gloi that's amazing!

I had a friend's horse on sort of loan/riding arrangement, she went away for the weekend and I took my BF with me who was gradually starting to become more confident with the horse. We unloaded many water carriers from the car and through we went, somehow I had become complacent that my BF was now a horseman and did not realise the gate was wide open. 4yo TB immediately saw his chance and galloped across the busy cross roads into a pub car park, me in hot pursuit having never run so fast in my life (for some reason also wearing a mini skirt that day). Horse seemed to find this a marvellous game and ran straight past me towards the motorway (!) I ran on in complete horror as traffic stopped and I managed to catch him by the fly mask which I am so glad he was wearing! Boyfriend sheepishly approached with headcollar and of course chucked the noseband at his ears! Many shouts of 'I SAID WALK. YOU *?#!@*' and all was well...couldn't blame the poor horse really but he did seem to enjoy the caper!
 
this very morning.... my lot weren't going out in the field so I said to another livery she could turn hers plus his friend out in the field instead (we're on a rota, day in the corral, day in the field). About half hour after they'd been turned out, I saw the note on the whiteboard asking for 2nd horse not to be turned out in the field as he's got the start of mud fever and his owner had spent a freezing half hour scrubbing his legs clean last night.... cue me dragging him back in and hastily attempting to make his legs white again, with an apologetic txt to the owner!

and a very long time ago, i used to work at a farm park giving pony rides. We'd do laps of a tiny paddock whilst the parents looked on, and I generally nattered away to make the time pass more quickly. Anyway one day all the parents were laughing their pants off, halfway around the paddock I glanced back and this tiny child was clinging on limpet-style, at a 45 degree angle to the ground, child, saddle and all. I'd forgotten to tighten the girth. At least none of the parents tried to sue me!

oh... and i've punched myself in the face whilst tightening the girth up too - perhaps we could start a new clique??
 
I've used to leave my pony whilst putting out jumps/putting them up, and one day she decided to canter out of the school and back to her stable! The gate was closed as well, she is just such a clever pony that she manage to open the gate and run!

The stupidest thing I've ever done was, whilst I was sorting out the muck heap and throwing all the muck up and to the back of the trailer, I had to pull some of it down in order to get it right to the back. What I didn't mean to do was stab a hole straight through my boot, into my foot with the pitch fork! Needless to say, a quick trip to A&E revealed I had broken one of the bones in my foot and was on crutches for a week!

I don't have much luck with pitch forks; I once even jumped off a wall, didn't noticed the pitch fork and it went straight into my hand! Probably should have got stitches but did not fancy a trip to the hospital so washed and bandages it myself ;)
 
vikkiandmonica said:
The stupidest thing I've ever done was, whilst I was sorting out the muck heap and throwing all the muck up and to the back of the trailer, I had to pull some of it down in order to get it right to the back. What I didn't mean to do was stab a hole straight through my boot, into my foot with the pitch fork! Needless to say, a quick trip to A&E revealed I had broken one of the bones in my foot and was on crutches for a week!

I don't have much luck with pitch forks; I once even jumped off a wall, didn't noticed the pitch fork and it went straight into my hand! Probably should have got stitches but did not fancy a trip to the hospital so washed and bandages it myself ;)
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Ouchie!
 
ralph and maverick said:
Christmas day a few years ago was mucking out my old Arab and had him tied on yard, finished mucking out hay, water etc, came back about 10 hours later to find him still died on the yard, I had forgot to turn him out when I had finished!!!! Bless him the poor boy no hay water nothing! I felt dreadful especially as was Christmas day, but he was fine and obviously very pleased to see me!
I did feel VERY VERY bad!!!!!
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OMG before I realised the typo I thought your arab had DIED!!! :eek:
 
I help the YO in return for riding. One day, only a few months after I started helping, I was asked to lunge one of the new horses, he was in a smaller paddock when he first come so I got the horse out of the small paddock and began to lunge. It wasn't until the YO came out that she saw i was lunging the wrong horse! To be fair there are 4 bays, and I wasn't to know that she had moved the horses. I did think he looked in great condition considering he only came a week earlier in need of a good feed!
 
Not long had my first horse, a spirited mare, and decided to take her on a solo hack, for the first time, on a main road, and once she was thoroughly wound up asked for canter on an open park field.

Cue both me and the bridle being dumped on the floor and said mare cantering off into the distance.

Luckily she was tempted back with a pack of polo and I popped bridle back on on hopped back on board.

I only bruised my finger and my pride!
 
I travelled all the way up the country to an event and even stayed the night it was so far away.
Next day just before cross country I realised whoops forgot my back protector, Iv never been in such a panic!
Luckily got a lend of one of another competetor who finished before me, il never be forgetting it again
 
I also managed to catch my body protector on the saddle when dismounting at the yard gate. It tipped me backwards so much that when my feet hit the floor I had enough backwards momentum to see me fall flat on my back. Worst thing was that i ended up sitting in a muddy puddle and had soggy pants, lol!
 
I did something silly the other day! A liveries horse was in a shelter, which has some birds nests. I saw a white blob on her side, so got some water and wiped it off...it wasn't bird poop, but some sort of wound power, exposing a nasty little cut! :O
 
my first day helping at RDA- was 13 and knew nothing about horses/straight out of a riding school. got told to go and bring one of the horses in- looked on the board where there were pictures of each horse, thought "right, medium sized grey horse, cant be too hard!" so off I go walking through the mud, get to the field- 5 grey horses :rolleyes:

spent about half an hour trying to figure out which one the head collar I was holding fitted!!
 
When I first started riding, my OH bought some leather half chaps for me to go with my jodhpurs boots. Wore them quite proudly to one posh riding school for a lesson with uni and when I had a lesson with my usual instructor at a different riding school, she commented that I had managed to put my chaps on the wrong way round! :eek: I was mortified! But felt very silly as the posh riding school instructor didn't tell me, and most probably was sniggering behind my back!
 
horselessb said:
my first day helping at RDA- was 13 and knew nothing about horses/straight out of a riding school. got told to go and bring one of the horses in- looked on the board where there were pictures of each horse, thought "right, medium sized grey horse, cant be too hard!" so off I go walking through the mud, get to the field- 5 grey horses :rolleyes:

spent about half an hour trying to figure out which one the head collar I was holding fitted!!
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YO did that to me once! We have 5 small bay ponies. YO asked me to get Sammy in and said "He's the small bay one" eeerrrmmm...
 
I have done a few stupid things! I still do lots of stupid things, but I have become quite good at it so I don't tend to damage much now :o

I was not very old, (younger than 10 ) and was riding a 11.2hh Dartmoor pony- I was always supervised when riding but my mum had gone to fetch the others in and left me walking round. I'd been jumping a small 1'6 fence on short grass- on the other side of the field was another " 1'6 fence "... however it was 1'6 ABOVE the 1ft of grass :rolleyes: So being a bit stupid.. I cantered pony over the small fence, then turned her to the what was in fact about 2'6 fence and only realised a few feet away from it that it the pole was a lot higher than i'd thought ! Pony skids to a halt, I land on the jump and my finger is stuck out a funny angle! :eek: I whacked the finger and it went back to normal so no idea what happened :D I never told anyone though.

Oh and then when I was 12 I was riding my naughty 12.2hh welsh x Shetland. I was told not to ride him bareback because he was naughty- so of course, as soon as my mum was out of sight I jumped on him bareback and took him for a trot around the field :D however my mum reappeared, our eyes locked contact and I just froze... unfortunately the pony carried on and I just fell off the side in shock :o
 
At my racing yard, boss and a few others were going for a trip to the forest, asked me to tack up a horse for him. Got distracted and forgot what I was doing, got a phone call half an hr after the horse boxes went off "you tacked my *******ing horse up with no stirrups on the *******ing saddle!!!!"
Woops!
 
glamourpuss said:
Recently I was going to a show, loaded all my tack etc in the living & jumped in. Drove down the drive. It wasn't until I thought
'Gosh, the lad is quiet' (he's a prolific pawer when excited)
That I realised I hadn't actually loaded him into the horsebox :D

Luckily I hadn't got far, not like my eventer friend who got 2 hours to an event before realising she's forgotten one of hers!
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LMAO. Yep. Done that one before.

We got to Towcester Racecorse and discovered that we'd left the horses at home. Good job we were only 20 minutes down the road.

We also took the wrong horse once :o
 
I left mine on the walker once...did his stable, all the rest of it, got chatting to someone, finished the conversation, got in the car and drove home...had been home about 20 mins when someone phoned me from the yard asking where I was...at home, why...? Because the poor sod is still walking round wondering why he's been abandoned! Felt very very bad!
 
I've just remembered this one:
Giving one of the 14yo girls at my yard a ride on Loki I was chatting away said "come on then" legged her up and said "off you go then"... she replied "can I put my hat on first" :eek: I'd not even noticed! :o
 
Some of these are great :D
When i had 3 horses i started taking all 3 in at once because i just found it irritating being in the furthest field and walking up and down so much :p this had been going fine for weeks, bit of a struggle but no problems, till the one night there was another horse being brought in much further down the track they all spooked at the gate banging behind them (happened often:confused:) and tanked off at a spanking gallop, i had no hope holding them but still clung on and landed face first in the gravel :o. But not only did this lead to the poor other woman struggling with her horse, it was one of the rare times the YM was there that late so i got a royal *******ing :o:mad:. Swear horses just cause trouble at the worst time for laughs!

More recent one, i was toddling around bareback on oreo after lunging so had just tied the side reins together as couldnt be bother to wrestle my reins on (they're a bit stiff :p), so i was nattering away to my friend not paying a bit of attention as she's a donkey and then my friend pointed out that id lost a side rein :o. Cue me having a slight panic desperately trying to grab the trailing thing, oreo was very bemused at being tugged in tiny circles so i could grab it and so was my friend :rolleyes:

Also made the mistake of allowing the spotty one to gather far too much speed going over 3 jumps fairly spaced out in a row, and not going the same route with easier turns as id done the time before. Well i flopped out the side door on to my arse. Was very embarrassed as hadnt even fallen off cause of a jump! No! Going too fast round a very tight corner, horse cornered like a pro and i fell off like a blinking novice lump :o Did the same thing jumping a log on a hack, but got up laughing that time as was so proud id jumped it :D
 
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