I am in Disguise
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As per my username, I am in disguise for this post Wimp!
So we had a lot of snow on sunday. I keep my gelding at a large yard (40 plus horses), in the hills. There is a mix of full, part and diy liveries.
Sunday morning yard is under 8+ inches of snow. Yard Manager (nice chap) rocks up early (on his day off) with wife plus 3 x kids in tow to start clearing it so liveries can get about and staff can get on with their day to day jobs. Couple of liveries (me included) ditched the mucking out and mucked in, helped clear yard, salt it, clear 2 x schools, clear horse walker, cleared lunge area, clear car park, clear driveway you name it we cleared it, shovelled and salted like our lives depended on it. Took us nearly five hours with not much time off but a good job done - total number of liveries who helped... 6...
All the while other liveries walked past us, asked us to move so they could lead horse to field, got on and rode in cleared schools, complained a bit hard or a bit wet, put horses on walker etc etc. Many moaned about how cold it was, some rocked up mucked out and left.. some never made it down to the yard at all as 'snowed in' and lets face it - it was thawing by 12??
A couple didnt go up to the yard until about 1ish and then expressed surprise when their DIY nags were still in their boxes without hay etc. (had been hayed just had finished it)
A grand total of 4 out of 40 + liveries thanked the yard manager. Most seemed to think snow fell in neat piles and miraculously the schools, walker, car park etc hadnt been hit at all.
Left the yard wondering... am I the normal one and all these others ridiculously selfish/blinkered/just plain odd... or am I plain odd/stupid to help out like the minority? How do people not feel guilty for moaning/riding/watching as people are shovelling snow like their lives depended on it to make other peoples lives easier??
Please tell me I am normal???!
So we had a lot of snow on sunday. I keep my gelding at a large yard (40 plus horses), in the hills. There is a mix of full, part and diy liveries.
Sunday morning yard is under 8+ inches of snow. Yard Manager (nice chap) rocks up early (on his day off) with wife plus 3 x kids in tow to start clearing it so liveries can get about and staff can get on with their day to day jobs. Couple of liveries (me included) ditched the mucking out and mucked in, helped clear yard, salt it, clear 2 x schools, clear horse walker, cleared lunge area, clear car park, clear driveway you name it we cleared it, shovelled and salted like our lives depended on it. Took us nearly five hours with not much time off but a good job done - total number of liveries who helped... 6...
All the while other liveries walked past us, asked us to move so they could lead horse to field, got on and rode in cleared schools, complained a bit hard or a bit wet, put horses on walker etc etc. Many moaned about how cold it was, some rocked up mucked out and left.. some never made it down to the yard at all as 'snowed in' and lets face it - it was thawing by 12??
A couple didnt go up to the yard until about 1ish and then expressed surprise when their DIY nags were still in their boxes without hay etc. (had been hayed just had finished it)
A grand total of 4 out of 40 + liveries thanked the yard manager. Most seemed to think snow fell in neat piles and miraculously the schools, walker, car park etc hadnt been hit at all.
Left the yard wondering... am I the normal one and all these others ridiculously selfish/blinkered/just plain odd... or am I plain odd/stupid to help out like the minority? How do people not feel guilty for moaning/riding/watching as people are shovelling snow like their lives depended on it to make other peoples lives easier??
Please tell me I am normal???!