What Strange/Weird People Have You Met In The Horsey World?

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Just wondered if anyone else has come across someone who's a bit erm. 'odd'.

It was a couple of months ago now and I was looking for a livery yard for a horse that I was taking on loan. Area I live in hasn't got loads of yards so was contacting a few. Saw one yard advertised on the internet which sounded perfect and the type hard to come by. Indoor, outdoor, horse walker in the process of being built, decent livery prices.

Rung up and got talking to the woman, who sounded like she was well into her forties, and she got talking about the yard. Said it was a new yard, only recently been built and she was looking for liveries. Told her I'd contact her again in a few days to organise a viewing.

Rung her again in a few days, no answer, tried again over the next couple of days, no answer. She finally rung me back about a week later and said her dad had been in hospital so hadn't been to the phone. I asked her for postcode for the satnav and we organised a day for me to go and see the yard. She said she'd text me the postcode in the morning because she wasn't 100% sure, which I thought was a bit odd.

Day came to go and view the yard and couldn't get hold of her - must have rung, text, left voicemails about 20 times.
Friend and I decided to venture down to the place where yard was supposed to be, which wasn't a big place, and go exploring as was only 5-10 mins drive. Couldn't spot this livery yard anywhere considering how big she'd described it as being in quite a little area.
Saw a local tack shop, stopped and went in to see if anyone knew about this new yard. Apparently no such yard existed. Both the shop owner and couple of the customers in there said that none of them knew about a livery yard being built in that area (and it was only a village), especially not one with both an indoor and outdoor.

Thing was that she definitely sounded like a grown woman on the phone, not a teenager pulling a prank. What got me was she must be quite peculiar if she's gone to the lengths of listing her own number (home and mobile) on the ad.. and actually writing a full, long ad itself! Why would anyone do that?

Anyway, anyone else come across any weirdos, or just me?
 
When we were selling our house (small equestrian property) we had a lady who put an alleged cash offer in, we accepted the offer but didnt take it of the maket until funds were confirmed, it turned out she didnt have the money and had to sell her house. In the meantime she had told everyone in the village, been to the pub and told them she was moving in on a certain date, announced it to lots of mt RC friends, arranged for a home visit from WHW for a companion pony, kept turning up all times of the day and night, offered us a cheque for £100 to take it off the market.

She then started getting quite nasty with the estate agent and threatening them. Then she stopped totally, when the estate agent finaly plucked up the copurage to ask her if she had any interest in her house she said she had changed her mind and was staying put. We still see her occasionaly, usualy I hide!
 
Magicmillbrook said:
When we were selling our house (small equestrian property) we had a lady who put an alleged cash offer in, we accepted the offer but didnt take it of the maket until funds were confirmed, it turned out she didnt have the money and had to sell her house. In the meantime she had told everyone in the village, been to the pub and told them she was moving in on a certain date, announced it to lots of mt RC friends, arranged for a home visit from WHW for a companion pony, kept turning up all times of the day and night, offered us a cheque for £100 to take it off the market.

She then started getting quite nasty with the estate agent and threatening them. Then she stopped totally, when the estate agent finaly plucked up the copurage to ask her if she had any interest in her house she said she had changed her mind and was staying put. We still see her occasionaly, usualy I hide!
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LOL she sounds like a bit of a nutter!
 
Too many to mention but luckily they have been generally harmless. Your would be buyer sounds quite scarey!
 
We had a simmilar experiance as majicmillbrook when selling our house (in norfolk) must have been the same lady!!! and we hide when we see her !!! she even asked us to move the garden shed before she would send a surveyer round, he never did turn up !!!
 
OP I had almost exactly the same experience as you.
Replied to an online advert for a livery yard, exchanged several emails and arranged to go and see it. On the morning we went to see it we couldn't find it so rang the lady and she answered straight away. I said who I was and she hung up. Tried to ring back a dozen times, no answer. Left answerphone messages and when I returned home emailed. Never heard anything again.
I don't get why people would do this - they don't have anything to gain!
 
have met several who have to over exagerate everything, every jump is at least 3'6 or 4' but it looks strangley similar to the 2'3 my pony did the other weekend :cool: :rolleyes: its harmless but frustrating.
 
A strange, alcoholic woman was a livery at our yard for a very short while before being kicked off.
The final straw was when she climbed the muckheap, dropped her kegs and had a wee in a state of oblivion, as the riding school walked past, inflicting this damaging image onto half a dozen young girls on ponies followed by their parents on foot!

(p.s. we have a proper toilet on our yard)
 
A yard I was at also had an alcoholic woman on it. She was frequently found asleep in the hay shed but the final straw was when she road her completely insane horse out a hack blind drunk, nearly causing a massive accident on the road. She was asked to leave and when she'd gone, we mucked out her stable and found empty vodka bottles hidden in the staw banks!!
 
I;ve had nearly the same experience as OP, a horse though not a livery yard. Horse was to loan, arranged a viewing date and time and asked for directions. The lady sounded lovely and genuine, wanted a top class caring home for her mare. Talked for a long time, and felt positive about it. Had 'brilliant' directions through the NF somewhere. After hundreds of lefts and rights, we couldn't find the place. (before the time we had mobiles) we stopped at a phone box, to discover the number wasn't in use. We then stopped at a pub near to where we thought we should be, and asked if mrs X and her yard were local. They had never heard of her or the name of the yard. We also stopped at a genuine yard to ask, and they claimed we weren't the first!
I do wonder if a palomino 14.2hh called 'smartie' ever exisited!
Never heard another peep - she had our contact details too. I guess people like this get kicks out of this sort of thing?
Oh well, things happen for a reason.
 
I went to a Parelli demo (my first, probably last) a few months ago with a Portuguese friend. Over lunch a very overbearing English woman started interrogating my friend on what she fed her horses, how she cared for them, etc, etc. She then said, very rudely, that my friend obviously knew nothing about animals and what did she do for a living?

My friend replied, "I'm a vet"......

End of conversation!!!
 
At my old yard, we had a woman who was perfectly 'normal' (i.e. no apparent medical/psychological conditions).


The yard was set up so that everyone rented their own bit of land and it was in a square shape. After riding, usually to cool the horses down, we'd walk them round the track on a loose rein, so you ride past everyone's 'area'.

This particular woman, was a bit of an odd ball. She loved her horses dearly, however, used to sit naked in her field to 'sunbathe' and had really sexist anti-men signs plastered over the place. She would casually say 'Hi' with her boobs hanging out. Not a pleasant sight. I thought it was quite funny, but naturally it was pretty unpleasant.


On this same yard, we had a tap which we all shared, and I had to walk to the tap to fill my water butts up. I was on my own this particular day, and I loaned a horse down there. The yard was empty and so I was on my own, anyway, one of the women down there (who nobody liked because she was so rude and inconsiderate), who most mornings I opened the gate for her car and would smile at out of courtesy, approached me.

I was casually filling my water butt up and she said to me ''Are you looking for someone?'' I said ''No...:confused:'' and she said ''Well why are you here?'' and I sort of looked at her like 'pardon???' and she then started shouting saying ''You do realise this is private property!?! I will call the police, are you helping yourself to our water?'' At this point I wasn't sure whether to laugh or what, so I said ''No, I have a horse on loan here'' and she went ''Yeah yeah... this is PRIVATE property, which horse do you supposedly loan then???'' and I told her all the details of the horse I loaned, his owner and all her other horses and named some of the other liveries and who they owned and then what her name was. She looked at me and went ''Oh right. I didn't know'' and walked off. No apology for shouting and screaming.

I'd been at this yard nearly a year and seen this woman on numerous occasions every week. I'd even spoken to her before. I wasn't any different, had the same haircut, nothing new.

I see her around and she now is the manager of my friends yard. I was at her yard on Friday and this woman appeared, and was accusing my friend of doing something she didn't. My friends horse is out of work, and so is on box rest (everyone is aware of this) yet got shouted at for leaving jumps in the school! She said 'I've not been riding?? You know I've not' and still this woman kept shouting and hurling at her, ''Don't make excuses''


She's unbelievable!
 
lassiesuca.... that is just plain wierd. Quite eerie infact.

Has she got dementia? Sounds very much like the beginnings of some sort of memory problem...
 
Having depression made me a touch (well, alright then - very) paranoid, and I went around worrying that I came across as a bit of a nutter. Watching, and listening to the liveries on my yard, has made me realise that we all have hangups, and quirks of personality. In short, we are all nutters of one form or another!
Hoorah - I am not a weirdo :D
 
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