Funny volunteering stories...

[Festive_Felicitations]

I organised the volunteers for my local RC's ODE the other weekend and sitting at a fence talking to one of the judges, she told me about the first time her dad jump judged, I thought it was such a good story that I would share...

She was riding had convinced her dad to jump judge as they were short:
" It was a lovely afteroon in the sun and we both had a great day. Later on, the organiser asked me to find dad... I thought "oh oh, what did he miss, protest argument coming on!" But no, they just wanted to thank him for giving them a great laugh as he had slightly misinterpreted his job as a jump judge by actually SCORING out of 10 each of the competitors and given a comment on their rides..... over a LOG!! It was great. He was so embarrassed, but everyone had a good laugh. "

Any one else got some good stories?

 

[OldGit]

Ha ha LOL

 

[Mike007]

I dont know.... It could catch on!!!

 

[OldGit]

Oh christ, isn't it enough to get over them???, but style as well!!???

 

[carosel12]

Well this isnt as funny as that but it made me laugh, i was helping out at local show and i was ear wigging (as you do) to a mum and her daughter as the daughter was warming up ready to do her dressage test, the pony was playing up slightly (bit over excited) when the daughter ask why he wouldnt strike off on the right leg for canter, the mother replyed "your just not pushing the right buttons love" to this the daughter replyed "Where the hell are the buttons" the daughter must only of been about 8yrs old, and it really tickled me.

 

[kerilli]

those are brilliant.
at BE once they had a fence judge who kept putting down "UR" (unseated rider) over his fence, eventually TA was sent over to find out what was going on as there hadn't been any reports of falls, loose horses, etc. turned out anyone whose bum left the saddle in midair was judged as 'unseated'. oops, now that's a real stickler!

 

[Lolo]

Well, we organise a PC ODE and it's the big one of the year for our PC with the smallest class being 3'. We had an irate Dad come up to us brandishing two halves of his daughter's test sheet (she'd ripped it in half) from the Open class (3'9) saying they'd watched her test back on the plasma tv in their lorry and it was not the same test that the judge had appeared to mark, then claiming that his daughter had been discriminated against because she wasn't a NN member. The judge is the cheif instructor of the rival PC to the NN and most definitely not biased- and the girl who had best dressage wasn't NN either!