Stupid things you've heard non-horsey people say...

My OH struggles with the word Numnah, so he calls them 'num nums'!

He also says why do I need 6 bridles! Point taken!

Also when he really gets a stop over livery costs he just says why don't you sell it!
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He doesn't get dinner or priviledges for a week!
 
Kind of an old one but my office work collegue was asking me about horses and I was saying that I have lessons every Wednesday night. He asked how long I'd been riding and I said 'off and on, about 22 years'. To which he replied
Oh, well don't you know how to do it by now then? Why do you need lessons?
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Lots of my female clients moan that their OHs think riding is easy because all you have to do is sit there. They tell me that they are going to bring them up for a go and I have to give one of my 'tough' lessons LOL!
 
My mare recently jumped out of her field after her field companion was away at the vets and she got spooked in the field (a long story) my friend on the yard was sat in her car with her son at the time and saw her do it, a few weeks later, my friends son was being brought up the yard byhis dad and my horse had her fly mask on, when he asked why she had that on her face, her son replied " It's a blind fold to stop her jumping out the field!". I just about wet myself when they told me, thought it was highly amusing!
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Oh, well don't you know how to do it by now then? Why do you need lessons?

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Get that ALL the time even from my dad
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These replies are funny but I think the worst I've heard is from someone who is supposed to be horsey. . . . I sold my Arab to a lady and her daughter who were at a livery yard that was within easy hacking distance of me so the arrangement was that I would take him for his last ride with me and deliver him to them at their yard. (They'd come in their car previously to pick up all the other paraphernalia that I sold with him). Being mildly paranoid that he would damage himself now that he wasn't actually mine anymore, I decided to put leg pads and exercise bandages on him to ride him round there. The daughter (who had been riding for a few years and they'd had their own horse prior to buying my Arab) solemnly asked me why he had bandages on - had he hurt himself? She'd never heard of exercise bandages . . . . I very nearly turned round and took him home again. . . . (actually, with the way things turned out I really wish I had but that's another story)
 
Whilst discussing a recent riding holiday to Botswana, a non-horsey friend of mine asked ' how did you get your horse out there and back - did he travel on the same plane as you?' She's not lived that one down yet!!
 
Boss: Why do you keep calling your horse "he" - I thought all horses were "she's"?
Me: Umm, how can I put this - where do you think baby horses come from - immaculate conception????

<insert optional saracasm!>

She also cannot cope with the fact that I need to see my horse during the week(!) and always asks on Monday whether I rode my horse at the weekend (like it's a special thing that you only do occasionally - she can't grasp that I ride at least 5 times a week every week, whatever the weather)
 
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