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

Tie everything with a quick release knot.
You do a canter instead of a jog throwing in a flying change just for fun.
 
sav123 said:
Your idea of human first aid is to think what you'd do for a horse and adjust as necessary.
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Ditto diets. OH has been threatened with soaked hay for dinner due to expanding waistline and I mentioned magnesium the other day to a lady who said she was feeling stressed. If it works for horses.......
 
You refer to all pain medication as 'bute' even if its for humans and find yourself referring to your movement with back ache to the gp as 1 tenths lame!
 
When you know that the middle layer of brown paper from a paper feed sack makes excellent wrapping paper for parcels ;) says she hacking away at a paper sack ... :D
 
Enfys said:
When you know that the middle layer of brown paper from a paper feed sack makes excellent wrapping paper for parcels ;) says she hacking away at a paper sack ... :D
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and ... way back in the day, we used to use the same for clay poultices on legs, clay, brown paper, bandage. Now, that is REALLY showing my age :D
 
You don't flinch when writing a cheque for £300 at the dog vets - I got the comment "You have a horse, don't you"

You have ground in dirt on both first fingers that doesn't come out with scrubbing.
 
yhanni said:
I've got the hands of a 90 year old scullery maid! Not pleasant and beyond redemption. The car is quite good at half halts sometimes.
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I.ve seen a lot of teenagers doing half halts and basculing on hill starts, usually, but not always with L plates.
I used to wear cotton gloves at night, with Neutrgena/Atrixo Handcream, a passion-killer but it worked very well eg for your wedding day.
 
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I should try that E C as they are a real disgrace and, as a nurse, I'm washing them all the time as well which doesn't help. Overuse of steroid cream as a young 'un with contact dermatitis has just compounded the problem. I do tell patients that if they were a horse they would be shot, dependent on the presenting complaint of course! Usually wipes the smiles off their faces! (I'm a prison nurse before you report me!!)
 
When you burst out laughing when you go into the chemist for 4 bottles of liquid parrafin and the pharmacists refuses to sell them on the grounds you are anorexic (happened to me when i had a colicking broodmare and I was very overweight in the region of 17 stones) She couldnt understand when I asked her if I looked anorexic and explained it was for a horse on vets advice and still refused so had to send 4 people into the same shop to buy a bottle each
 
Never ever tell a pharmacist that it is for an animal ! they just wont serve you. 4 bottles of liquid paraffin would be for an art work of some sort . Get inventive and have your cover story well prepared!
 
Easy one this...... when your horses stable is tidier than your house! As a long suffering husband trust me I've spent my life tidying up behind them!
 
Farmer Chalk said:
Easy one this...... when your horses stable is tidier than your house! As a long suffering husband trust me I've spent my life tidying up behind them!
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And it's a sign of an inexperienced pony Mum when the pony's stable is not clean, especially round the feeding area and the corners. Dust and cobwebs from one year to another. We note that this Mum's car is clean both inside and out. Maybe her house gets hoovered every day!
 
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Haha so funny!
.... Mines is the clicking at people to move forward - always being told by them "I'm not a horse!!!"

Works though!
 
I love these!

Pressing a finger or thumb into OH's hip and clicking to make him walk backwards or over, then releasing pressure as he moves (he's actually very well trained to this now, and only realised I'd 'trained' him when he saw me doing it to a horse).

Leg yielding car when changing lanes on motorway.

Preparing to sit a spook when see a plastic bag etc. when driving.

Wondering what on earth people do in the mornings, evenings and all day at the weekend!
 
Doris68 said:
Still dreaming about my horse and giving her huge hugs, when she was PTS nearly 2 years ago :-(
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I had a dream about my horse of a lifetime who died about 8 years ago at the age of 30, I dreamt that I was cross country jumping her (our favorite passtime), in the dream I leaned forwards & hugged her telling her how special she was to me.
Waking up & remembering that she was dead made me cry.
 
turkana said:
I had a dream about my horse of a lifetime who died about 8 years ago at the age of 30, I dreamt that I was cross country jumping her (our favorite passtime), in the dream I leaned forwards & hugged her telling her how special she was to me.
Waking up & remembering that she was dead made me cry.
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They never leave us do they. My dream memories always make me cry too. Sometimes, when I wake up, I feel very emotional and then recall that I dreamt of her. She was 29 when she left and I'd had her for 25 years.
 
EKW said:
The one thing we are good at is bandaging!
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Haha. I did my first aid refresher in work yesterday and the assessor asked me if I had horses. I said yes and asked why he asked. He told me it was amongst the best bandaging he'd ever seen and the only others to have done it so well in the past all owned horses :D
 
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