HOYS - Why Can't People Sit Still!!! (Small rant warning!)

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We went to HOYS yesterday for the evening session, having looked forward to our trip all year. It clearly states on the tickets (and all over the place in the NEC too) that the session starts are 6:25pm.

We got there in plenty of time to do the 'shopping experience' and wander round the various attractions ouside the main arena before taking our seats in plenty of time for the start of proceedings. Then the ruination of our evening began.

From half way through the first class ... through the next, and the next, and the next etc, we had to suffer people arriving late and faffing about taking their seats. Our view was blocked again and again and again by the people in the row in front of us standing up to let others in.

Even during the highlight, the Puissance, there were people moving around and disupting others' enjoyment. As the Puissance entered the last round, there were people leaving to get out of the car park before the rush - what's the point of spending £50 on a ticket if all you're going to do is clear off before the main event's even finished - spoiling others' enjoyment at the same time!!

I got so fed up with it that in the end when 3 people who'd been up and down like a bride's nightie all evening tried to climb over me yet again during the Puissance, I actually refused to move and said they should wait until the class had finished!!

It spoiled it so much that I probably won't go again. I'll stay at home and watch on TV instead!

Rant over, sorry!
 
I went on Wednesday and it wound me up no end too. Some weren't even just faffing taking their seats, they would happily stand In front of the seating having a merry chat. Grrr!
 
Oh yes, had this at Olympia last year! We went for the Dressage Freestyle and people weren't allowed to go to their seats during tests. Didn't stop them coming up the stairs and standing to the side of them, right in front of us and blocking our view though! After a while we got REALLY p!ssy and were asking them to get out of the bl00dy way!
 
It's the come on John, I don't think John has a god enough string, I am not impressed with.... Constant expert opinion on John Whitaker, it got very off putting...... For goodness sake we do not need a commentary!

Totally agree in seats till break and then go shop , loo etc! Also people on phones for hours....
 
Highlands said:
It's the come on John, I don't think John has a god enough string, I am not impressed with.... Constant expert opinion on John Whitaker, it got very off putting...... For goodness sake we do not need a commentary!

Totally agree in seats till break and then go shop , loo etc! Also people on phones for hours....
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Surprised to hear that you think you heard this! John Whitaker is NOT even at HOYS - he and Robert are jumping in Germany!!
 
Very irritating I agree, but in future pay more and buy front row tickets so that you're not disturbed. If everyone waited til the break for the loo/refreshments, the queues would be so long that people wouldn't be back in time for the next class so you would still be in the same position.
 
Had the same at the NIA last year when the Spanish riding school was performing. Woman sitting in the front row decides to leave with her child just as the horses were going by and lead horse spooked and set the others off. That and using flash on cameras even though they'd been reminded numerous times not to!
 
At cricket matches (where the spectators are much further away), no one is allowed to move during a run up. If they are not in their seats, they stay where they are. So why don't they bring this in at horse events? Not just for the run up, or the over either, but the whole class. Must admit I don't go to live events anymore for this very reason.
 
It's disrespectful to the competitors. The audience have been allowed the chance to watch them, the ticket price does not include the right to wreck their chances (such as putting horse off with flash photography). They have had to pay serious money & time to get to that level & compete, audience paying £50 for a ticket booked in 2 minutes on a computer is peanuts in comparison. It is a privaledge to watch this level of competition, & should be treated as such. If you can't sit still when someone is in the ring, go to a film, they won't care about you leaving any time you want. Watching any live sporting event should be done in a manner where the sportsmans chances wont be compromised by audience behaviour.
 
Did anyone hear the stupid cow shouting as one rider approached the wall as she was obviously friends with one of the others and kept trying to put him off? Drove me mad I would have happily gone and shut her up myself.
 
To be honest I didn't notice much of this on Friday at HOYS, the biggest irritation was a load of young noisy teenagers up at the back all texting & talking (could hear them from our seats nearish the front). I think its rude to come in whilst someones jumping, but agree that if everyone waited for end of whole class to go to loo etc the queues would be huge. Surely its just using common sense and having a bit of consideration- dont be up and down like a jack in a box, and wait until a riders just finished jumping etc before quickly getting in/ out before the next rider starts.
 
I've noticed this when I've been to Olympia, I don't know why it's so hard for people to sit and watch top riders and horses without getting up, down, answering phones or talking all the way through. We had someone behind us at Olympia who really was an over-sharer, by the end of the class we watched t we knew all about her marriage, her in-laws, all the horrid people on her yard, how great a rider her daughter was, every pony and horse her daughter (Katherine as I recall) had ever sat on ever, and of course an in-depth analysis on how the riders at the top of their game could have improved their round. We made a joke of it, and for a while we would say to each other "What would Katherine do?" when we were stumped by some equine challenge, but yeah, annoying!
 
I find it very annoying too. A couple of years ago albeit not at HOYS but at another event we were watching a lecture/demo and the person behind spent the whole time on the phone. Not an urgent type of phone call but a general chat call. Why take up a seat that someone else could have had.
 
I was there yesterday and although not directly affected could see masses of people around the arena moving around during jumping rounds etc

My biggest bugbear though was the sale of whips/crops which i would cheerfully ban if i was in charge... These are widely available at local tack shops or the internet why buy one at HOYS at 9:05am and spend the rest of the day with it stuck out of a carrier bag jabbing everyone else as you pass them!
 
The OP states exactly the reason I will not waste my money attending either HOYS or Olympia, people are just so selfish now and if it's not people playing musical seats it's screaming kids.....
 
I personally hate the 'clickers'
You are 30 rows from the front, in an audience of however many thousand people...it can't hear you clicking it!!
 
I agree. Hugely irritating! I find the same thing with concerts, I stopped going to those for that reason! People getting up and down to get drinks. I don't go to concerts for a good booze up! i don't get it.

I must admit to my friends and I buying lots of cheeses on a stall at Olympia, before the show a few years ago. God knows why? I mean I didn't go to a horse show with the intention of buying cheese!

It was rather embarrassing as we stunk the whole area out!
 
We were there all day sat, we had a good time, the only annoying thing to me was the yelling at riders(uninvited I guess) and a few drunk fellas a few rows back from us.
 
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