Signs that show you have been a horse person for a long time...

When a doctor asks for a short medical history and it takes forever. You start at the top and work your way down.
And the ridiculous pain tolerance. Walked into a minor injuries unit with a dislocated shoulder (as in had a step in it blatantly dislocated) a few years ago the nurse turned me away saying it must just be bruised if it was dislocated I would be screaming in agony. GP the next day sorted it for me. :-D it's now my party trick to dislocate my shoulder and put it back.
Dislocated my foot and broke my leg last year and the rugby club got me an ambulance....pretty sure I could have run it off. #worstpatientever!
 
jumbyjack said:
Saying trot on to OH when he stops suddenly!
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pardalis said:
You bend at the hip when driving over a speed bump!
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LeneHorse said:
When you take your car to the garage with a puncture and say - it's in the off hind :)
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LadySam said:
Doing shoulder in with the supermarket trolley.
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Trolleys are surprisingly good at lateral work.

All the above- and spooking at things, clicking at things, holding anything in my hands as reins.

So glad to know I'm not alone 😂😂😂

Anyone else count strides between random objects when you're just walking along?
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
You've still got your first pony's bridle/headcollar/reins/girth (nylon string, naturally) - stuffed away in a drawer in your tack room, which you can't bear to get rid of!

You are the "horse bore" at every social gathering, and don't give a stuff.

You can still remember the Greats such as Marion Mould and Stroller, Eddie Macken & Boomerang, Princess Anne & Doublet, etc etc, Harvey Smith, David Broome, and yes, Pat Smythe. and the D'Inzeo brothers.

Your parents (if still around), have had to admit that your "pony phase" didn't go away as they'd prophesied and hoped.......
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Yep, and five years after selling last horse [weep] you are sitting in the dentist when the brand new receptionist asks if you something about horses [!]: you are wearing a green jacket with a tiny Horse Wear logo!
I wonder if anyone still has a pair of [vintage] Harry Hall cavalry twill joddies with real suede knee pads, they had a grippy waistband so your white shirt and horse pattern red [red or yellow] tie stayed in place at all times.
I had a russet brown hacking jacket made with real Harris Tweed when I owned my very first hunter, I looked very smart [I thought]
When asked to write a poem in English [Higher Grade C], you come up with this classic after the passing of Foxhunter [Col Harry Llewelyn].
"He was a proud and noble beast,
His eyes were dark and clear,
He lived a life so brave and near [!]
In which he'd shown no fear."
 
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Ode to Foxhunter
"He was a proud and noble beast,
His eyes were dark and clear,
But now His life, to be, has ceased,
In which he'd shown no fear."

Of course he has a proud heritage, "The Foxhunters" series and The Foxhunters Chase at the Cheltenham Festival
 
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Exploding Chestnuts said:
I wonder if anyone still has a pair of [vintage] Harry Hall cavalry twill joddies with real suede knee pads, they had a grippy waistband so your white shirt and horse pattern red [red or yellow] tie stayed in place at all times.
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Oh, I wanted a pair of those so badly! Or anything with real suede knee pads, really. The posh girls I rode with had them. (And they wore them for everyday riding. They didn't even have to save them for showing!) Never did get a pair myself.

I do however still have my vintage Harry Hall riding crop. I haven't been able to find anything else quite like it lo these many years (Brown leather handle, wrist band and lash. No plastic! No bling!). And somewhere in my mother's garage would be my vintage Harry Hall riding hat in brown velvet. No fancy schmancy modern venting, so it got good and sweaty. Gold satin lining. Luxurious velvet that you don't find on everyday hats anymore.

Aaahhh, and I remember when all this were fields... ;)
 
LadySam said:
And somewhere in my mother's garage would be my vintage Harry Hall riding hat in brown velvet. No fancy schmancy modern venting, so it got good and sweaty. Gold satin lining. Luxurious velvet that you don't find on everyday hats anymore.

Aaahhh, and I remember when all this were fields... ;)
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You were so lucky: I had to borrow a hat when we went to our instructors' wedding, to do a triumphal arch as they left the chapel, sadly no gold satin lining, and the top crown bit had fallen off, so it had ventilation, but we never wore hats anyway! It was obviously a cheapo, it easily deformed, which meant it conformed to any head shape or size.
 
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When you go back to have the cast removed and the medical staff have words with you about the amount of straw and muck inside it from mucking out while wearing it.
 
LadySam said:
I do however still have my vintage Harry Hall riding crop.
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I still have my first ever riding crop it's Harry Hall and is a creamy/ yellow colour with black leather straps and leather head. I was thinking about putting it together with some other stuff as a display.

I've also still got my first pony's first and only Lavenham rug.
 
I find myself getting slightly confused between horses and dogs these days. Hence telling the dog to 'walk on' and getting the horses in by shouting 'COME!'.

Luckily they all seem to get the gist of what it is I want.
 
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When no one recognises you in 'normal' clothes
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Guilty of this one - actually got told off for looking posh - I was only in new jeans and a wool coat and fake fur hat. Normally though the person sees me in RWHS baseball cap, stable boots, scruffier jeans and polo shirt as am unloading manure from my trailer onto her allotment!

Also guilty of baler twine in pocket of that same wool coat and a car interior that looks like the inside of a stable. I also still have my first ever riding hat and whip - both museum pieces now (can't believe I never got a concussion falling on my head with that hat).
 
One of the teenage girls from the yard met me leaving the station after a meeting in London (suited and booted) and told me 'you look ok with makeup on' in a voice full of surprise. Gee - thanks sweety!

I found myself clicking at a very slow hire car going uphill recently and it was only when I picked up my own car again that I realised not all cars smell of a farmyard.
 
Gloi said:
When you go back to have the cast removed and the medical staff have words with you about the amount of straw and muck inside it from mucking out while wearing it.
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I can't see anything wrong with that, you need to keep moving to prevent muscle wastage, as they should know, and plenty of hay will keep the leg nice and warm when at rest.
I was v lucky when in A&E after arriving by ambulance [a first], with hypothermia and unstable knee. My doctor was a rider, he did not say anything about oap's riding young horses in hill country on a winters day. Apparently the person who rang in said they thought I was about 87 years old grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I think I was barely 60!
 
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I started doing this with loads of things in a bid to re-learn how to hold the reins properly, I somehow got into the habit of "piano hand" style-ee and had to retrain myself
 
Actually, there was the one time I took my friend to hospital after a netball injury and the nurses wanted to know who'd bandaged her wrist. She said I had, and they asked whether I'd ever considered going into nursing. When she told them no, I was more interested in working with horses, the response she got was "Lucky horses."
 
When I join my husband for a day out on his boat he tells me off for using quick release knots for everything instead of proper knots that I don't even know the name of never mind how to do.
 
When your car is full to the brim of clothing for every eventuality. No it is not tidy, but if I need to drive off into the sunset I have enough clothing to last me a week... or one day in English weather ��.
 
I get irritated when people drag their feet. I can't help but say pick your feet up. Also when someone explains their injuries or illnesses I say oh we had a horse like that.
 
your day starts with going to the yard to do the horses and you end the day making sure they're all tucked up in their PJ's in the stable. also using the same whistle to get children out of bed as you use to call the horses inform the field ( works both ends of the day )
 
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