Just been asked if I was a beginner

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I was riding in a lesson today on a school horse. The horse in question is a little green and we were jumping. I got off and one of the parents of one of the teenagers who I was riding with said "I think it's great that you learned to ride as an adult". I told her I've been riding for over thirty years. Bit gutted actually. :(
 
Perhaps she just thought that as you were having a lesson? My family regularly ask why I have lessons when surely I should know how to ride by now? lol
 
When I mention to my Mum I am having a lesson she replies you have been riding since you were 7 can you still not ride then. Thats a non horsey persons view on it I think.
 
We were skiing and my friend fell off the ski lift whilst trying to get on it, someone commented how it gets easier and is always difficult the first year...... He has been skiing over 30 years. These things happen, people get the wrong end of the stick.
 
When my daughter was really young she used to say that she wished she rode like me.... Now she's getting so good and the instructors are always pushing her onwards. I feel like my time has come to slow down - people think I'm passed it...
 
nah, i wouldn't worry about what other people think as u have been riding for so long...its all between u and your horse...
others can watch, talk and laugh as much as they want...
thats just me though...
:)
 
Everyone should ride a green horse sometimes. It brings you back to earth.

Don't take it to heart, I'd be inclined to think that the parent didn't have much knowledge otherwise she'd have realised the horse's level of education.
 
At the end of a prelim dressage test, the judge beckoned me over and asked me if I had 'anyone to help me out with my riding' evidently assuming I was a beginner. I didn't tell her that I had actually bred and started the horse myself, nor did I tell my trainer what the judge said!

Now I'm not the world's best rider by a long chalk, but the judge wasn't to know that the horse I was on was utterly aghast at being asked to perform the test and was being really uncooperative and presumably assumed that the fact that most of the test was lacking impulsion was entirely due to my complete numptiness.

Take heart, horses do that to you.
 
I had that once. I used to be a helper at a big riding school, and as one of the older helpers (also doing my exams) I was allowed to take out hacks (bear in mind this was 20 years ago). I was down to take a lady out on a private hack, she was a bit quiet during the hack and seemed a bit nervous - I asked her if she was OK, and then she said " I'm sorry dear, but are you old enough to take me on a hack riding that horse?". I was riding Zita who was an ex-police horse and although she looked a bit of a handful, she was really easy to ride. I laughed and explained that I was actually 20 and had been riding Zita for a long time. She laughed and looked quite relieved and said that she thought I was only about 13!
 
hayley.t said:
Perhaps she just thought that as you were having a lesson? My family regularly ask why I have lessons when surely I should know how to ride by now? lol
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This is just what I was going to say!

Similarly, I'm a teacher and a 10 year old in class come up to me yesterday and asked most sincerely:

"Do you LIKE shopping in charity shops, Miss?"

Cheers! Someone's going to be working VERY hard for good grades this year!:p
 
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