Alicat88
Well-Known Member
Today we had to move our broodmare and her 2yr old filly and yearling colt down our road a couple of hundred metres to the meadow.
We got mum to go down to the meadow gate (down the road)and try to hold the traffic up a bit so we wouldn't be cleaned off whilst walking them down, my brother did the same at the other end.
Now we live on a country road, really a big lane but as it is a "shortcut" into town people cannot be assed using the lovely, wide inviting main road half a mile up from us instead. So we pretty much live on a mini M6, cars doing 80mph+ down the hill, you get the picture.
Well, got the usual smart asses who overtook her and zoomed up towards us and then Shock Horror! actually had to wait 2 mins for younguns to get past. Now our yearling has never seen a moving car up close, so it took him a minute to see that it wasn't a fire breathing dragon and muster the courage to walk past.
I of course,coming behind get looks of death from big surly middle aged men with toddlers in the back seat, and a young woman and her mother, both wearing more make up than Bonzo the clown. Young girl then decides to rev car as hard as poss past poor yearling, who nearly has a heart attack. Meanwhile mum is bravely holdiing back a line of traffic that would put Belfast rush hour to shame by standing hands on hips!
The only courteous sensible people to actually stop and switch off their engines were a young man in his twenties and a van driver! I couldn't believe it, so I thanked them up and down.
When we got to the meadow gate, the younguns were afraid to cross the big puddle into the field and were trying to get back up past me. I am really surprised they didn't end up on the elderly lady behind my bum in a huge mercede's bonnet.
Anyway, got them into field, closed gate behind us and an absolute darling of a little boy racer with r plate deliberately drove through the big puddle as fast as he could go, and drenched poor Dad, who was feeling poorly enough as it was.
It was like the guy on the news a while back who splashed those poor people at the bus stop and put it on youtube.
I couldn't be more angry. I mean I just am lost for words to describe the stupid and ignorant people driving about country lanes. I know some people do not understand how sensitive horses are, and I can forgive that, but to deliberately splash water over someone because you were held up a few minutes is unforgiveable in my books
Sorry for the huge rant! Cadbury's chocolate for anyone who actually makes it this far awake!
We got mum to go down to the meadow gate (down the road)and try to hold the traffic up a bit so we wouldn't be cleaned off whilst walking them down, my brother did the same at the other end.
Now we live on a country road, really a big lane but as it is a "shortcut" into town people cannot be assed using the lovely, wide inviting main road half a mile up from us instead. So we pretty much live on a mini M6, cars doing 80mph+ down the hill, you get the picture.
Well, got the usual smart asses who overtook her and zoomed up towards us and then Shock Horror! actually had to wait 2 mins for younguns to get past. Now our yearling has never seen a moving car up close, so it took him a minute to see that it wasn't a fire breathing dragon and muster the courage to walk past.
I of course,coming behind get looks of death from big surly middle aged men with toddlers in the back seat, and a young woman and her mother, both wearing more make up than Bonzo the clown. Young girl then decides to rev car as hard as poss past poor yearling, who nearly has a heart attack. Meanwhile mum is bravely holdiing back a line of traffic that would put Belfast rush hour to shame by standing hands on hips!
The only courteous sensible people to actually stop and switch off their engines were a young man in his twenties and a van driver! I couldn't believe it, so I thanked them up and down.
When we got to the meadow gate, the younguns were afraid to cross the big puddle into the field and were trying to get back up past me. I am really surprised they didn't end up on the elderly lady behind my bum in a huge mercede's bonnet.
Anyway, got them into field, closed gate behind us and an absolute darling of a little boy racer with r plate deliberately drove through the big puddle as fast as he could go, and drenched poor Dad, who was feeling poorly enough as it was.
It was like the guy on the news a while back who splashed those poor people at the bus stop and put it on youtube.
I couldn't be more angry. I mean I just am lost for words to describe the stupid and ignorant people driving about country lanes. I know some people do not understand how sensitive horses are, and I can forgive that, but to deliberately splash water over someone because you were held up a few minutes is unforgiveable in my books
Sorry for the huge rant! Cadbury's chocolate for anyone who actually makes it this far awake!
