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For my English essay, we have to do 'don't get me started on...' I have picked to do 'dont get me started on... Drivers that are ignorant towards horse riders' i have quite a few experiences with this and know of many more. I'm wondering if anyone would share experiences with this that i might use in my essay. If you don't want to write it here, feel free to PM me with anything.


Thanks in advance!
 
when you're riding your horse toward a lorry, and the grumpy old bloke is sitting watching you impatiently and then the moment you've juuust past it they rev their engine and zoom off scaring the bejeebies out of your horse!
 
We had recently a Royal Mail van who sped towards us at a speed of 30mph+ (on a very quiet morning, with lots of children about) and when the horse I was riding spooked and instead of slowing down, he revved his engine behind us (inches from the horse's bum) and sped past, causing my horse to kick out.

Another that springs to mind was a bunch of boy racers in a noisy, clapped out old Saxo, shouting out of the window "how fast can they go?" and proceeding to toot their horn and rev right behind us until we were forced to abort our original route and go down a bridlepath so they couldn't follow.

As well as those, the usual ones who don't slow down when asked, who get very close...
Gotta say though, most are quite good ;) (not that that helps your essay!)
K x
 
Ooh, how about drivers that don't know what hand signals mean, drivers that don't want their wing mirrors anymore so use your stirrups to get rid of them, air brakes (reckon my horse thinks they snort at him), eco friendly stop start engines that start up just as you draw level, drivers that follow too close, drivers that think a 17hh ID will fit through a gap a normal person would have to squeeze sideways through...

Oooh don't get me started!
 
Elderly drivers who peep there horn behind you to warn you they are about to over take. A lorry driver once told me that they have no control over the air breaks, it's the lorries hydraulic system. Not sure if it's true or not.
 
Kind of true, I have a lorry with air brakes, they hiss/snort when you let your foot off the brake, so I try and wait til any horses are a decent distance before letting them off

Having dark thoughts about racing bicycles too now...
 
My best so far was a motorbike that came between me and 3 cyclist on a country road, then had the cheek to tell me too F off when I mouthed idiot and shook my head as I saw him starting to overtake the cyclists.
 
I have to say the rudest people I've ever encountered on the road are horsebox drivers. Can't help but think these people should understand pass wide and slow :eek:

My best traffic experience was the police car which came screaming round the corner with blues and twos - I jumped horse up onto the edge of a field and he took the noise to be the perfect excuse to tank off. Having pulled up and collected both of us I returned to the road to notice the police car with sirens off reversing frantically back down the lane to make sure I was ok. I acknowledged them, they waved, put sirens back on and roared off and horse took this as the perfect excuse to tank off. Can't help feeling one of the three of us should have learned our lesson!
 
My best ever was the postman who came to deliver post to our yard while my terrified of the farrier youngster had her foot between the farrier's legs and a shoe half nailed on! He whizzed on to the yard straight past her bum so he could stop right by the post box, then did a three point turn that ended about four inches from her bum. The farrier said "come a bit closer why don't you youth, don't mind us!" Luckily my horse might be a wuss about farriers but she had balls of steel when it comes to traffic.
 
drivers that whizz past a corner, see you and rather than slow down they squeak their breaks and suddenly stop.

old people that arent quite sure how big your horse is so they keep getting closer and closer...

buses that are going back to the bus station with no people! whizzing past you not caring at all to slow down. imagine being a young horse and have a big orange thing coming at you at high speed and when it passes you it wooshes wind and dust if your face and wobbles as well! to me that is pretty scary, can't imagine what horse feels like!

but there are some lovely drivers out there too! most of them are lovely. my favourites are:
mums that stop with a van full of little children that are all waving and smiling and looking at the horses with amazement :)
the cyclist that are dresses in those very bright colours that actualy care enough to shout hello when they're behind you so you know that they're there - ponio appriciates them too :)

if its a science essay then i parsonally wouldn't get opinions from a forum as that is classed as un reliable information (just done 5 pieces of science coursework :/ and got told off for using a forum)

Good luck! :)
 
KellysHeroes said:
We had recently a Royal Mail van who sped towards us at a speed of 30mph+ (on a very quiet morning, with lots of children about) and when the horse I was riding spooked and instead of slowing down, he revved his engine behind us (inches from the horse's bum) and sped past
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Had the same with my boy the other day...quiet village at about 4 in the afternoon and pony decided a dog digging in the gravel is too scary to walk past, so pony proceeded to run onto the other side of the road and attempt to turn back, and we had impatient royal mail driver behind me. Pony's spook lasted literally 3 seconds which, fair enough, if he wouldn't move for a few minutes i could understand the royal mail van getting mad, but i only held him up for a very very short time.....

anyway he put his van in a low gear and floored it past me making a very loud noise and pony (who was still sideways from the dog incident) was looking pretty close to the van so I turned and looked and there was about half a foot gap between galaxy's bum and the van...good job he was still preoccupied on the dog! :mad:
 
shiny-ISH said:
drivers that whizz past a corner, see you and rather than slow down they squeak their breaks and suddenly stop.

old people that arent quite sure how big your horse is so they keep getting closer and closer...

buses that are going back to the bus station with no people! whizzing past you not caring at all to slow down. imagine being a young horse and have a big orange thing coming at you at high speed and when it passes you it wooshes wind and dust if your face and wobbles as well! to me that is pretty scary, can't imagine what horse feels like!

but there are some lovely drivers out there too! most of them are lovely. my favourites are:
mums that stop with a van full of little children that are all waving and smiling and looking at the horses with amazement :)
the cyclist that are dresses in those very bright colours that actualy care enough to shout hello when they're behind you so you know that they're there - ponio appriciates them too :)

if its a science essay then i parsonally wouldn't get opinions from a forum as that is classed as un reliable information (just done 5 pieces of science coursework :/ and got told off for using a forum)

Good luck! :)
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Thank you! It's an English Essay so what they don't know won't hurt them! :P Shame about your science!
 
About eight years ago I was hacking with my sister down a lane. We were at the bottom the BMW came speeding down the hill, he could see us from the top we were all in flusrestants, after us and nearly went into the back of the pony I was ridning. That was the only time I have ever willling whacked any one of my horses with all my strengh as he just planted his hooves when we heard the screeching and wouldn't move. I broke my whip on his bum, he shot forward a few feet just in time as the BMW skidded to a stop in the place we had been.
He blared his horn gave us the finger then sped round us off into the distance.

It really *Insert bad word here* me off when drivers think its funny to rev their engines gong past us.

xx
 
slightlyconfused said:
About eight years ago I was hacking with my sister down a lane. We were at the bottom the BMW came speeding down the hill, he could see us from the top we were all in flusrestants, after us and nearly went into the back of the pony I was ridning. That was the only time I have ever willling whacked any one of my horses with all my strengh as he just planted his hooves when we heard the screeching and wouldn't move. I broke my whip on his bum, he shot forward a few feet just in time as the BMW skidded to a stop in the place we had been.
He blared his horn gave us the finger then sped round us off into the distance.

It really *Insert bad word here* me off when drivers think its funny to rev their engines gong past us.

xx
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Oh my word! Thats terrible! At least he didn't hit your pony, hate it when they sware at you when it blatently isnt your fault but there own! Had one man screech to a stop the other night behind me, scared himself silly (thank god) and crawled past me at about 2mph when he could
 
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