Inspired by content of gamebird's post, your favourite mother quotes!

My highly strung friend, screaming at her 8 year old, innattentive daughter, whilst we are both waiting to go into a lead rein class....
"We are NOT here for fun you know".....
 
Loving these....my parents are non-horsey to and really don't get it.

My Dad tends to be quite tough and if I come out of an SJ with 4 faults its not uncommon to hear him muttering about pedigree chum. Saying that he came to watch me at MK3DE and sat in the car whilst I did my steeplechase & XC....I thought he was bored but according to my Mum he cried when he saw what I had to do and could not watch....bless.

Mum's comments show willing but make her sound like a complete prat. She is often heard shouting loudly as we walk through lorry parks, collecting rings etc "That one looks like Milton" (pointing at anything grey).

Bless em...thank heavens for my horsey sis!
 
Mum is actually horsey (well she likes to think so) and had ponies in her younger days...without winning much I might add.

I was about 13, had just won junior dressage test, SHP and WHP at a "good" local show and did the gymkhana with my mate for a giggle...pony not impressed but hey ho. Mum whispers "You beat her and TRY please!" OMG!!! We tried very hard to come last!!!

At the weekend, after a dressage lesson, I went home complaining about an upset stomach (had for few days). My non-horsey nan diagnosed it as "could it be all the bouncing around on the horse?" Great!

Dad is not particularly horsey but v supportive, listens intently to instructors at clinics etc then says how wonderful said instructors are. He takes me to most events but few years ago
at a ODE horse did a lovely 20 m circle in buck. Dad says "I don't think that was quite right was it? You just wizzing round xc for fun now?" Bless.

Best one was at Badminton few years ago. Me and mom left dad at the Crepes stand, wandered back hour later to see him chatting away to Mark Todd (they had table sitting together OMG!) Dad said after "He knows lots about eventing!!!"
 
My parents are definitely not horsey!

My mum has some sort of image in her head of me doing dressage on a "proper" horse, this being defined as a German warmblood of some sort (she's German). When I got the spooky pony (my very first very own horse, mind you, so I was pretty darn excited), her FIRST comment was: "oh NO not another pony! Aren't you too big for him? Isn't it about time you were getting a proper horse?"
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When I fell off him a few weeks later in a jumping lesson, I didn't phone her from A&E because I thought she'd be worried...but then when I did phone, she immediately made up a snarky little rhyme about how the pony was clever and it was my own fault! (It was in German, so I won't print it here.)
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When the Dressage World Championships were not far away, my dad, completely unprompted, I might add, because I was too young to be well informed and didn't actually know it was happening, found out and took me along to the GPS day! He must have been bored stiff, but never a peep as I oohed and aahed...
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