Had a interesting hack this afternoon

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Thats the only way i can think to phrase it, and not interesting in a good way really. Went on a usual route and the horses were very good, but at the begining of our hack a woman stopped on the 60mph road and wound her window down to tell me i had a beautifull horse and he was lovely then drove off, was nice of her to say but have never had that happen before.
On our way back we saw a driving instructor car parked up (wont say which company) with a man and young lady doing something they shouldn't have been doing!:eek: It's not even a quiet lane out in the sticks, it is a country road but they were parked in a entrance to a long driveway to another yard. They looked shock and embaressed (sp) to see us and drove off sharpish.
Anyone else seen odd things out on hacks?
 
not particularly odd, but it put the sh*ts up me at the time, two early 20s girls hacking on a main road, without hats, wearing trainers, with horses that obviously weren't happy in walk! *shudder*
 
We live in a country lane, and we used to regularly (esp Friday) see a Merc estate and BMW parked up mid-day in the layby, Merc used to have sun visors put up in all the windows and would rock about.

Don't think they realised how much traffic on foot goes past - is very much a dog-walk route and on a Fridays the local OAP Health Walks (20+ of them) go past :0)
 
Where i shared for a few years we only really had one hacking route and it was about an hour through a small woods. Rarely a hack went by without me seeing people parked up doing things they shouldn't.

A few years later i was talking to a friend who said that's where her and her unsuitable male aquaintance used to go too! Glad i never saw them! Got used to random people and averting my eyes, but would have been a whole other level of awkward seeing one of my oldest friends there!! :eek:
 
Yeah, last week, a man with a snarling Rottweiler type dog straining at the lead told me I shouldn't be riding my horse in public, because "horses were dangerous animals". And had "I ever been kicked by a horse" to which I answered "No, have you ever been bitten by a dog". He was wierd. Thats what happens when the countryside starts turning into town.
 
We used to ride through a forest and regularly say cars and vans rocking lol.
Once I was riding past a couple who must have been toying with the idea of al fresco without getting grass stains on the bums so had the sunroof wide open. I just said 'don't mind us' as I rode past. The horses were so used to it they didn't normally bother.
I was only about 16/17 then and that was probably what counted as my sex education lol
 
I was out with my sister on her horse and mum on foot when I was younger. Horses got all skitish down a bridle path between two fields 3 foot tall with crops. We wondered what on earth freaked them out when I looked was a wierd bloke crouched down (hiding!) in the feild?!?

We trotted and got mum to run. Called the police but he was gone by the time they arrived. Was scary cause people walk dogs alone down there and it isnt exactly populated *Shudder* Some wierd people about!
 
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Sounds like lots of weird goings on, do these people not think they could get noticed.
I was tempted to call the driving company (its large and well know) and tell them as it could have been someone suppose to be having a lesson and looks bad on the company anyway but thought it would be rather harsh.
 
Lol! Had the pretty horse comment before.....or if on hairycob 'What is that?' Bless poor little hairy cob :(

Wierdest was the scary traveller back near my old yard,we had been galloping round with some friends out hacking in some fields and jumping the streams, ditches etc and just havinga bit of fun....came back out on the bridleway track to a man in the middle with a shotgun next to him saying 'I've been watching you. Nice looking horse. How much do you want for it?'

:o

NEEDLESS to say we backtailed out of there and galloped like we'd never galloped before, including some escapee style emergency jumping out of said field away from him.
I was about 14 at the time.
 
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