What would you have said?

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Fii

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My OH came back this morning and said he had just had a go at a woman in the field.
Aparently she was cleaning her muddy boots off in the horses water barrel. :eek: Actually scrubing them with a nail brush in my horses CLEAN water. :mad::mad:
She just said , what does it matter, they drink out of the ditch, so a bit of dirty water wont hurt them.
There is a ditch that fills with rain water, but we also put clean water in every day for them in a half barrel, which they drink, so they have a choice.
She also said, well other farmers dont mind me washing my boots in their troughs! Bleddy rubish, they probably just don't see her do it.
OH said ,right you can help me fill it back up with clean water now, she did'nt though. :D

I can't beleive the mentality of some people:(
 
He did swear at her, but it was a good job for her it was'nt me.
She said she was going to speak to the field owner as she was'nt happy at being spoken to like that.
I just wondered how everyone else would have reacted.
 
Do you alone rent the field or is she another grazer on the property.

If you alone rent the field then you can be as rude as youo like as you are entitled to 'quiet enjoyment' no intervention from the owner unless by appointment or if you have broken any agreements in your lease.

If you share then suggest that she gets a bucket, fills it from the stream and cleans her boots in that!

What a rude woman. Good on your other half.
 
We have rented the field for over ten years , just us.
The problem lies with there being footpaths through the field, so you get allsorts of people with no idea walking through.
The way i looked at it was, we went out all day today, and if OH had done the water earlier, it would have been muddy all day until we got home. It takes three barrels of water to fill it, which we bring from home, every day, sometimes twice a day. We don't do it as a service to walkers for boot/dog washing!
 
Fii said:
Yes i suppose so, he did'nt recognise her, although she said she knew who owned the field.
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She could well have been talking cr@p about that, Ive challenged trespassers before now to be told they had permission from the landowner to be there....


...they didnt as Id have known, being the landowner and all ;)
 
I think i will move the water, so it is out of the way.
It is near the gate at the moment to make it easier to get to, for filling.
 
I'd have asked her to leave my property immediately and to remain ON the foot path in future. If I saw her doing it again I d have an invoice on my pocket for" the emptying cleaning and refilling of one water butt and pick say 100 quid and politely explain that as she has damaged your private property after u were perfectly reasonable last time in asking her not to she can pay compensation this time. She won't pay but she'll get the message...
 
that is extremely rude! why are people so rude??!! putting her dirty boots all over your trough! and...who knows where those boots have been and what she may have trodden in? not only from your horses drinking the water point, but also if something had been left around the edge from her boot, you could easily have lent in it and ended up with it over your clothes!!!!
 
What a rude and inconsiderate woman!! We also have a footpath running across our land. We installed cameras so we can keep an eye on walkers antics. Tbf the vast majority stay on the path and keep their dogs on leads but the random few are a nightmare. We even had one couple close off one of the paddocks so they could pitch their tent for the night!!
 
We had someone pitch a tent in the field last year.
After being told by someone they where in danger of incuring serious wrath from us if we caught them, they knocked on my door, and asked permision, they where so nice, my OH said yes, and moved the horses over, so they would'nt trample the tent.
They wrote us a lovely thankyou card, apparently we made their stay in the village memorable. :D
i don't mind the nice sensible people who use the field, walk through, pick up their rubish, control their dogs, it's the idiots i object to!
 
^ quite. She was showing total lack of awareness, just saw water and thought 'boot washing'. She didn't stop and think about who, what why or where. In this situation a calm explanation is much better as it increases awareness and educates, and there's no reason the exchange couldn't end with a smile & pleasantries. Flat out agression and hostility alienates and isn't helpful. I don't know why everyone is so ready for a fight all the time.
There's a reason why those most equipped for hostility (the SAS) approach all tricky situations with a non-agression, non-hostility policy - it's productive and gets results with minimal fuss :D
 
gugglebum said:
^ quite. She was showing total lack of awareness, just saw water and thought 'boot washing'. She didn't stop and think about who, what why or where. In this situation a calm explanation is much better as it increases awareness and educates, and there's no reason the exchange couldn't end with a smile & pleasantries. Flat out agression and hostility alienates and isn't helpful. I don't know why everyone is so ready for a fight all the time.
There's a reason why those most equipped for hostility (the SAS) approach all tricky situations with a non-agression, non-hostility policy - it's productive and gets results with minimal fuss :D
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Next time i will lay in wait in the long grass with my camo jacket on, until she comes along, then jump out, smile sweetly, blow her a kiss, and then shuve her arse first in the water. :D
 
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