Stupidest Questions/comment you've been asked by non-horsey person

[KrujaaLass]

Hi Ezme
I used to ride my first horse (1966) to the farrier. He had a forge in the High Street (Chadwell heath) behind the Coopers Arms Pub. There was not so much traffic in those days. Then progressed to an army farrier who used to come to the farm.

 

[Ezme]

Lol, at least theres a bit more detail than "my grandad had to take the shires to the blacksmith!

 

[RobinHood]

My mum works as a school receptionist and one of the teachers asked her if horses hibernate! Someone with so few brain cells shouldn't be allowed to teach children

Dog walkers are forever asking why the horses have blindfolds on and sometimes helpful people cut holes in them so the horses can see

One of them asked me the other day if horses do anything other than eat grass because they'd been walking down the same path for years and it's all they'd ever seen them do.

The man in our local chip shop asked me if I keep my horse in my room at university. I said no I keep him in a field. He looked confused so I said it's an area of grass with a fence round the edge. He seemed most suprised that I left him unattended with 'nothing to eat'

 

[Lobelia_Overhill]

A woman came to pick her kid up from a lesson and told us "that horse's coat has fallen off" we ran down thinking he'd had some hideous sudden alopecia - turned out his run had slipped.

A kid asked if my horse weighed a ton.

I was asked - in all seriousness - why I wasn't riding at the Olympics "they do that there, don't they?"

 

[pinktiger]

i was once asked by OH how i knew which jump to jump next!!

 

[Vicky4567]

When I got my first horse we went to a livery yard to look around - we were talking to the yard owner about Liability insurance and she asked if we were members of the BHS and my mother looked up and said "whats that - British Home Stores!" I could have died of embarrassment!!