Little things that other people do that bug you

Lolo said:
How can you ride well wearing them? Or any loose fitting thing round your legs, like the 'country' boots (Dubarrys, etc)... They look awful and must hugely affect the way you ride.
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:D Aha, that's what is causing it, my boots, I can lay the blame for my bad riding on my boots ;) thankyou :)
 
I want to play but can't. It's going against my new Zen lifestyle! But really just not enough room on the page and I'm not ready for everyone to know I'm so petty. And at the end of the day if it isn't causing me or my animals harm I must bite my tongue.

Terri
 
my bfg said:
the worst one has to be - waving a fellow livery off on a long hack whilst i was mucking out, then as i went to lock up i found her 6 month old kid left alone in a buggy in the tack room!!!! couldnt leave it on its own so was stuck there for another 2 hours waiting for her to get back, then her saying "oh she would have been fine, you didnt have to stay with her" WTF?? :eek:
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Godd grief..!!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Thats a horrible thing to do..!!! I`d have been hopping mad if I was you...what if something had happened...would she have tried to hold you responsible.??!!
Im sorry but this is actually a WELFARE issue for the child..!!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
my bfg said:
the worst one has to be - waving a fellow livery off on a long hack whilst i was mucking out, then as i went to lock up i found her 6 month old kid left alone in a buggy in the tack room!!!! couldnt leave it on its own so was stuck there for another 2 hours waiting for her to get back, then her saying "oh she would have been fine, you didnt have to stay with her" WTF?? :eek:
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I think you should have called Social Services, tbh.
 
FionaM12 said:
Really, isn't life a bit short to be letting yourself be bugged by what sort of boots other people wear? :rolleyes:

And how they turn themselves out, for that matter.
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Sorry... I clearly missed the point of the thread. I assumed, having read all the other posts, that it was about the little things that bugged you but weren't really that important :)

For example, I am bugged by people wearing footwear I have always felt to be unsafe and not conducive to good riding (your leg muscles act as the aid givers. How can you give clear concise aids if you're wearing baggy boots? It'd be like trying to speak through cotton wool...).

I am also bugged by people picking up on things I say because I've been honest :)

And long hair that's not tied up- I hate it when my sister rides with her lovely long hair in a ponytail halfway down her back. Because if she fell off and it got stepped on, it would hurt a lot, and she'd look very silly scalped :D
 
Lolo said:
Sorry... I clearly missed the point of the thread. I assumed, having read all the other posts, that it was about the little things that bugged you but weren't really that important :)
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Reading this retort and thinking about it, I think you're right and I should apologize.

Nothing other people do with their horses bug me unless it directly affects me (eg using my stuff and not returning) or is an actual welfare issue. What they or their horses wear etc I barely notice tbh.

I picked on your post because it stuck me as particularly strange you'd care about other peoples' clothes. ;) But you're right, maybe the point of this thread is to confess such odd intolerances?
 
Using the haynets that I have prepared for the morning because they are 'in a rush to get to work'. We all have our own colour haynets and we leave them tied up at the back of the haybarn, its a yard rule that tied up haynets are sacrosanct. I've had this happen a few times, by one person in particular and it annoys the life out of me, as I hate doing hay nets with a passion, and try and make sure I dont have to do them in the mornings. When challenged shrugged their shoulders and walked off.

Also using my stuff, dipping into my feedbin without asking first, on one occasion using my bale of shavings and not replacing them when they said they would.
 
holeymoley said:
This is not an offensive thread but just one for you to say which 'daily'horsey things annoy you that other people do?
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This might not count... but it happens so much in the horsey world!

Bought and Brought.... omg it kills me!

I have a blooming cheek as well, as my spelling/grammar often leaves much to the imagination, however this one just grinds on me like mad!

I Try to imagine them saying "Im going to the shop to " bry" some milk". I mean come on!!!!


Ok... I feel better now :p :o


In real life however, theres not much that other horsey people do that annoys me, well that I can think of right now :o I just tend to keep myself occupied with whats going on in my bubble and not paying much attention to what others are up to. I may just be really lucky that they yard im at seems so bliss, and before I kept my horses at home - where I would only annoy myself :p
 
alainax said:
This might not count... but it happens so much in the horsey world!

Bought and Brought.... omg it kills me!

I have a blooming cheek as well, as my spelling/grammar often leaves much to the imagination, however this one just grinds on me like mad!

I Try to imagine them saying "Im going to the shop to " bry" some milk". I mean come on!!!!


Ok... I feel better now :p
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Oh, a fellow member of the spelling and grammar Nazi. I hate poor spelling and grammar, drives me mad. As for text like abbreviations, dont get me started,
 
Where do I start? :D
Leaving buckets full of muck outside stable, leaving buckets full of muck in wheelbarrow NEXT to muck trailer.
Not sweeping up.
Dumping rubbish around my things in feed room.
Carrot thieving, then leaving the evidence scattered all over the feed room.
Dumping haylage on the stable floor.
Using my shaving fork even though they know it's mine and grab it just as i'm about to go for it.
Need I go on? :mad:
 
I'm actually very tolerant when it comes to others as I'm normally to busy in my own world to worry about it :D

One thing that did annoy me once at a yard when we had our own storage sheds, one of the liveries actually had 2 yet still felt the need to leave all her stuff in front of mine so I had to move it all to get to my shed :rolleyes:... In the end I told her that if she didn't stop leaving it there she might not like how it's moved the next time..

Stopped after that :D
 
Sweeping. Well, the lack thereof anyway! I spent a fair chunk of time this morning tidying the yard, sweeping up, and two of my liveries came this afternoon to do their stables & it looked like a hurricane hit after they were done. So I had a strop and one of them pretended to be out of earshot, the other one cleaned up her mess. :D
That is really my only pet peeve....I hate messy yards. Especially when it was clean to being with, and they all know to clean up after themselves. :rolleyes:
 
I'm lucky, I've got my own place and had one full livery on.
Stuff that bugs me tho are...
Not tidying up your own mess.
Using others stuff
Not obeying basic arena rules- eg pass left to left, walk off outside track, lateral work is tight of way, not getting too close to the horse in front....
The worst is standing chatting on the outside track....that's sooo annoying....
 
When come up to stables just to ride their pony and then go home.
When people ride a horse and then dont pick his/her feet out
When people call horses 'it':mad::mad::mad: horses are living things just like humans and i've never heard of a person calling another person 'it'
 
I've been reading these with interest and wondered how many people would tell the offending person that they are being so annoying. I find it very hard to be confrontational and even though something bugs the hell out of me it would have to be really serious for me to say something :(
 
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I'm a bit OCD about stuff being stored neatly.

Not sweeping up.

Walking through where I have just swept, carring a huge wadge of hay or straw and trailing it everywhere (couldn't it have gone in a barrow?).
Leaving Stuff lying around.
 
Other liverys who do not pick up there horses poo from arena when finished riding

& other people who seeing the poo let there own horse trot thro it & mash it in

Takes 2 mins 2 lift it & means the lovely new school surface with last longer grrr!
 
People who empty their wheelbarrow in the middle of the much heap not over the edge. Drives me insane and makes it difficult for me to empty my barrow over the edge. The certain non horsey people who were at the yard yesterday yelling at eachother whilst I was brushing tipsy's legs, he panicked at them shouting and jumped back kicking my eye and breaking my glasses in the process. After this they got in the car and drove off! I have some great bruises and swelling today and I'm still seing double :( surely it doesn't take a genius to realise you shouldn't shout around horses?
 
Because my Horse has mild COPD I soak her hay. I leave it tied to the gate to let it drip and then put it in my stable. The gate is next to the hose. When people bring their Horses in to hose of their legs, they let their Horses eat from my net!! :mad:

I have come back before to find more then half of the hay missing. I have hid aorund the corner and watched and some of the liveries make no effort to stop their Horses eating my hay. Infact they encourage them too, so their Horse stands still to be hosed.

I now have to soak it and move it right out the way so it can't be eaten.
 
Badly mannered horses. I actually only roll my eyes in quiet despair at it now, because it's not my problem, but when I've worked at yards and had to deal with other people's badly trained horses, it drove me nuts. If any horse of mine tried to nip, I'd drive it backwards halfway across the yard in a proper "come to Jesus" meeting and it would never nip again. Unfortunately, you can't really get after a livery's (or worse, your trainer/boss') horse that way, so if they let their horse get away with it, there's not a lot you can do.

In one of my horsey jobs, I had worked for a German dressage trainer who rode up to FEI level. He told me once, "These German warmbloods, they cannot be trained in ground manners the same as your American horse. They are too smart. They do not think the same." Aye, right. These horses were all 17hh of bargey obnoxiousness. I wonder why.

But I digress.

People who go out for a ride and leave their halters tied to the hitching rail, but laying on the ground. I can't help but see this as a hazard if a horse should get loose. How hard is it to tie or clip the halter to the hitching rail so it's off the ground?
 
people wanting to borrow my things so that they don't ruin their things, yet apparently my things are rubbish because i don't spend £10 on a single brush, £100 on a bridle and all that kind of thing.

leaving their cups on my box.

not cleaning up after the farrier has been and they've tied their horses outside my stable which also kicks my box and knocks everything over!

leaving my headcollars in all the mud and trampling them rather than picking them up.

harping on about how their 'magic' cream/lotion/potions are the only thing that works on whatever is wrong with my horse.

there are so many but i'll leave it at that! lol
 
When people don't hang haynets properly. I appreciate short stringers can be a pain, but brand new massive haynets with miles of string should be threaded through the bottom, pulled hard, and tied in a quick release know of such, and then turned round.

Not just tied at the top and left to droop down!!!!!
 
Caol Ila said:
Badly mannered horses. I actually only roll my eyes in quiet despair at it now, because it's not my problem, but when I've worked at yards and had to deal with other people's badly trained horses, it drove me nuts. If any horse of mine tried to nip, I'd drive it backwards halfway across the yard in a proper "come to Jesus" meeting and it would never nip again. Unfortunately, you can't really get after a livery's (or worse, your trainer/boss') horse that way, so if they let their horse get away with it, there's not a lot you can do.

In one of my horsey jobs, I had worked for a German dressage trainer who rode up to FEI level. He told me once, "These German warmbloods, they cannot be trained in ground manners the same as your American horse. They are too smart. They do not think the same." Aye, right. These horses were all 17hh of bargey obnoxiousness. I wonder why.

But I digress.
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Some warmbloods are stupid, some are smart, but one thing I agree on is that either attitude can be dangerous if its not addressed, along with the sheer size of some of them, and I, like you, have turned and chased quite a few 'smart' warmbloods for daring to show me their pearly whites or barging through me more than a few times.

At the risk of being labelled as an animal abuser here, I also bit the ear of a well known biter who would bite, and not let go. He turned his head round one day despite being tied up, got the sleeve of my jacket (luckily) so with me free hand I grabbed his ear and bit. He dropped me like a hot cake and although he continued to pull faces, he didn't bite again.
 
when i'm trying to load my horse and he's being a bit of an arse, other liveries stand around shouting out suggestions and then try and push him in. that won't work at all. he loads after he's had a look around and never does anything dangerous, just stands there!

the same liveries then have big problems loading their horses using the methods they tell me to use.

it's annoying while i'm loading mine but when i watch them i have to laugh and walk away quick!
 
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