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I was out riding yesterday. I went through a gate onto a bridle path and there was bloke in a car who had been reading his paper in the gateway watching me. I tried to close the gate but it had dropped and I couldn't get into a good position to lift it back on the catch. I gave up, got off and managed to shut it. I'm a bit of an old knacker so had to climb on something to get back on. I climbed up on a delapidated wall and positioned pony ready to scramble on. As I went to get my foot in he decided it was a perfect time to rub his head on me and knocked me off the wall and I ended up upside down under his belly in the mud. I got on second attempt but I'm sure the bloke in the car got a good laugh at my expense ?
 
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That made me laugh. Poor you :)
I'm still embarrassed about the time I met a man on a hack. I'd had to get off because of slippery mud going down a steep bank. There wasn't anything to climb on, so I asked the man to hold the stirrup so I could haul myself back up. Unfortunately, my helper was a bit unnerved by being so close to a horse and he ended up slipping in the mud and dropping his glasses into the gunge.
I apologised profusely and he gamely said it was ok, but it really wasn't. Poor man.
 
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I always give a lovely smile if anyone is near a gate when I get to one out riding and the person is so keen to get rid of the strange smiley person they can not open the gate quick enough. The other day though when 3/4's of the way up a very steep hill some walkers were coming down, I said what a shame I was not a min quicker they could have done the gate for me, one of them went oh do you want and then stopped when he looked at how steep it was. I laughed and said you were going to offer to go and do it till you realised how steep it was but he did at least think about doing it.
 
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I thought you would going to say the wall crumbled.....years ago I jumped off my horse to move some wire which was by a gate, slipped on some gravel as I landed, pulled on the reins as I slipped, horse took exception to that, pulled away and trotted off. He realised he was not heading for home, so turned around, trotted back past me then went into walk and walked back to the yard. Fortunately it was on all tracks/private roads but I had to walk home behind him - he was just a bit too far in front for me to catch up!
 
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humblepie said:
I thought you would going to say the wall crumbled.....years ago I jumped off my horse to move some wire which was by a gate, slipped on some gravel as I landed, pulled on the reins as I slipped, horse took exception to that, pulled away and trotted off. He realised he was not heading for home, so turned around, trotted back past me then went into walk and walked back to the yard. Fortunately it was on all tracks/private roads but I had to walk home behind him - he was just a bit too far in front for me to catch up!
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Trudging along behind, knowing that if you jogged the bugger would trot ahead just for fun. Been there.
 
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humblepie said:
I thought you would going to say the wall crumbled.....years ago I jumped off my horse to move some wire which was by a gate, slipped on some gravel as I landed, pulled on the reins as I slipped, horse took exception to that, pulled away and trotted off. He realised he was not heading for home, so turned around, trotted back past me then went into walk and walked back to the yard. Fortunately it was on all tracks/private roads but I had to walk home behind him - he was just a bit too far in front for me to catch up!
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You aren't far wrong , the crumbling wall was the reason he knocked me off it so quickly.
Nursing a swollen finger today where I grabbed him trying to save myself.
 
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We fancied a few days down the coast yesterday, so we set up our horse minder to care for the horses, and set off along with the cat and dog today. All went smoothly until taking the diversion which was in place because of market day: we spotted the leisure centre had nobody parked outside the tennis courts, but had a lovely layby with nobody in it and a grass verge beyond for our dog to stretch his legs. At the end of the grass was a short stretch of tarmac, on which I promptly fell! I just about managed to get up before traffic arrived to mow us both down.

I now have 1 badly grazed knee, 1 grazed elbow, 1 cut finger, 2 swollen wrists, 2 swollen ankles, and 1 bruised rib. I look a right mess. Who says riding horses is dangerous? Just take a dog out.

The dog was totally unaware why I was down at his level, but helped me to get up by letting me grab his harness.
 
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