funny things your non-horsey partners/friends say/do around horses?

My dad came to watch my dressage test and offered to video it for me. On watching the film back he had got totally the wrong person and horse. As I was on a bay and he taped a grey he has never lived it down.

My ex hubby offered to see to the horses when the dentist came and my old horse which is normally good decided to play up and broke his finger. He had twisted his hand round the headcollar and I think thats why she took execption.
 
My Mum, bless her....not very horsey but she's a great help, took some treats to my lot the other day. When she came back she said "they really enjoyed those...I think they're getting sick of just having grass to eat"!!!!!! I almost wet myself laughing
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My OH always refers to stables as houses, anything faster than walk is running, rugs are coats and a chifney is a chimney!! Oh yeah and he likes brushing my horses fringe!!
 
What about funny things horsey people have said?!
Off topic slightly and she wont thank me for this but what she doesnt know cant hurt her, my friend from the stables was getting her horse ready for a show and she said, "Nearly finish, just got to plait her fetlock."
Mind you, this coming from me who asked why the USA werent in the eurovision song contest :S
 
my horses escaped from there field some time ago and i described what they looked like in simple terms for the pc i was talking to ,ie said the bay was brown etc, when she read the description back to me she said so he is 16.1 tall , brown and wearing 4 white socks
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A friend of a friend had someone visit their yard who couldn't understand how a 17year old pony was smaller than a 6 year old horse! Don't they get bigger as they get older?!!
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Someone i know helped out grooming a friends horse, when i see her next she said i brushed him, brushed his tail and mane, then put nail varnish on him, meaning hoof oil.

Another one was lungeing, a friend of mine hadn't seen it being done till the other day. After she see it, she said i always thought lungeing was like when people do lunges, like you have to stretch your horses legs or something.
 
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My OH calls jodphurs 'Ja-hod-purs'

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And my OH calls them 'jod furs'

because it is spelt with a 'ph' ! LOL I correct him and say it's 'hp' but he's convinced they are jodphurs
 
And a friend of mine was telling me how her non-horsey ex-boyfriend used to come and watch her have lessons. When she was schooling at home he would suddenly call out "and shoulder-in down the long side".

He didn't have a clue what shoulder-in was!
 
When my daughter was in her early teens she brought a school-friend along to a local show. The friend was staring at a jumping pony trotting past and asked why it was wearing sink-plungers on it's feet!!! She didn't come again - she found it pretty mucky trying to walk through the rain-sodden, muddy field in her open-toe sandals.
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few crackers i have been asked over years, a friend from a big city asked, at what age does a pony turn into a horse??!?!?!?!? she also asked when looking at a black n white cob in stable why was there a cow in the stable!!! my grandad was helping my mum out one day and put ruby;s 'jacket' on and fed her some pony nuts (beet pulp) prob is it was my 12.2 pony rug her put on and she was a 15.2!!!
 
I find it is just really funny watching non horsey people at the yard. Why are they scared of poo?!?!?!

I tend to forget that not all people are settled around horses!
 
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The of course there is the case of people just not listening. For some reason or another we (myself and all 3 sisters) couldn't do the horses one evening so my Dad was mucking out. I gave him specific instructions regarding the 3 year old we had just bought off the fells (basically a wild pony). He MUST be taken out of his stable and tied up as he is very food possessive WILL kick if you try and go in his stable with him. Well, my Dad decided I was clearly talking cr*p, went in the stable and tried to muck out with him in... guess what happened!!

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No the funniest story is your Dad at the event when your sister asked for a drink...you need to tell that one on here!
 
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