You know when your addicted to horses when...

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was thinking how many sayings i/we could come up with that started 'you know when your addicted to horses when..' right il start lol

you know your addicted to horses when..

when you watch a film and spend half the film trying to think of the horses breed and cc'ing it.

when walking around the house you like to add a few strides of canter in your pace just becasue you feel like it.

when you talking about your boys bad habits and you say ' my horse does that'

sorry lol this as just got stuck in my head now and i have come up with loads... will write more down if i can remeber them.. anybody else think of some funny ones. mine aint that funny but true if ya know what i mean tehe
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ahh here u go..

1. You care more about the hygiene and appearance of your horse than of yourself.

2. No matter how many times you wash your clothes, you still have traces of horse hairs on them.

3. Mucking a stall or cleaning your room? You choose muck a stall.

4. You talk about your horse as if it was human and give it human qualities.

5. Your idea of a great of a way to spend money is on new showing equipment or on stuff for around the barn.

6. No room is complete without a picture of your horse.

7. You have no problem with stepping in poop.

8. You are enraged when people say that riding is easy and/or that it is not a sport.

9. Your friends are jealous because you love your horse more than any of them. (Your horse is your best friend)

10. The best mail you get each month is your subscription to Horse Illustrated, Equus, and/or Horse and Rider.

11. You know that ponies are not baby horses!

12. Most of your facebook/myspace pictures have horses in them.

13. You expect people to understand what is involved in riding.

14. You either love the smell of the barn or you don't notice the smell anymore.

15. The most comfortable place is in the saddle.
 
Nevermind the car....I have clicked to my OH before when I've wanted him to hurry up....

He plans on using that little account in his wedding speech for some reason
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You have no problems in the shop, when trying on that little black dress, saying "ooh now my bum does look big in this, do you think its swelling up where Toby bit me?"
Toby being your horse, of course, not your man!!
 
you know your addicted to horses when:

your non-horsey mates ask you how your man is and you reply that he has been a little darling recently and is really starting to get the hang of counter-canter and flying changes and it isn't until you see the confused look on their faces that you realise they are talking about your OH...
 
.... you get caught utilising a meeting room at work for "practising" your dressage test on foot at lunchtime. You colleagues wonder why you are skipping round the room saying at F commence half ten meter circle......
 
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.... you get caught utilising a meeting room at work for "practising" your dressage test on foot at lunchtime. You colleagues wonder why you are skipping round the room saying at F commence half ten meter circle......

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Hahaha my family think i'm mad when I do this at home
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-When you hear the word horse and you immediately turn and look round to see

-When you dive past a trailer in the opposite direction and you have to pier into you mirror to see if you can see a horse in the back ha ha

-When you refuse to go out at weekends with your friends coz you have to ride

-When you lie in bed thinking about you horse and how you can improve and dreaming about winning big shows

-When you smell of horse and your family comment yet you can't smell it haha

-You practice flying changes as you walk down your landing

-You HATE clothes shopping but you could spend days in a tack shop

-You have tack hanging up in your room

-When you list to people the amount of new things you have bought for your horse and they ask what you have bought for yourself and you say ''Oh nothing''

ha ha love this topic!!!!

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....you click to your car whilst doing a hill start

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I once said a very firm "walk on" in that sing song tone to a friends child who was dawdling
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The friend laughed - she's addicted too
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Great topic!

I went for an interview today and they asked me how my best friend would describe me. My brain wanted to reply "Dinner"

You also know you're addicted to horses when you turn out in your work shoes and spend the day in the office wondering of anyone else has noticed the smell of horse.
 
...your colleagues calmly and quietly pluck bits of hay out of your hair as you walk through the door of your workplace.

...you happily walk into your house in your wellies and are surprised when OH cries out in disgust - well you just rinsed them off in a puddle so they're clean!

...you never wash your hands before eating up at the yard, despite having just rearranged the muckheap with your bare hands.

... you wear perfume that smells of apples because 'your horse likes it.'
 
I am a teacher and the other day bemused a student by saying "stand up" instead of stand still. I have also patted one on the shoulder and called him a"good lad, well done!"

Whe you arrive at a meeting at work with your jacket on and people start sniffing, you say you can't smell anything then a colleague points out the lick down the back of your coat and the aroma of horse eminating from you!
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Moral don't get your work and horse jackets mixed.
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You meet up with friends from your old livery yard/RS and spend at least 2 hours asking not how they are, but how all the individual horses are doing. You are more excited to learn that 'Dolly' no longer has a hogged mane than hearing about your friend's holiday plans or new boyfriend.
 
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-When you hear the word horse and you immediately turn and look round to see

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Haha i do this and looking in the mirror to look at horses in trailers!

WOuld also like to add rushing to the window if you hear a horse going past

stopping to look at anything with horses on it in any shop no matter how tatty/ rubbish it is

The majority of your computer passwords are horse related!
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Nevermind the car....I have clicked to my OH before when I've wanted him to hurry up....

He plans on using that little account in his wedding speech for some reason
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Ahh,you still have a way to go.....I have told son to walk on when he was going too slowly
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And if OH fidgets when I am doing his hair I yell STAND at him
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lol i can relate to most of this i also get excited when in 'normal clothes' and see someone in horsey gear! you feel like your the only 2 of your species in the area and want to make random conversation about horses!!
 
..you tap your daughters leg and say 'pick up' when putting her shoes on

....you would rather slash your wrists than spend £200 on a ball-dress as per your work colleagues, but would happily pay the same amount for a pair of riding boots...

....said work colleagues leave apples on your desk for your horses

...you have 'horse' clothes and work clothes and nothing else....if you do actually go on a night out you either a) have to buy something to wear or b) turn up in a joules top, justifying this by its price-tag and telling people its not actually one of your yard tops.....

...you sell your sports car and buy a clapped out landrover.

...you actually consider sinking yourself into massive debt to buy a shite house in the middle of no-where simply because it has 6acres of land attached (slap me now.
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NB...this is me, its my life.....
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you know your addicted to horses when..

-you are looking to buy a car but wont buy it unless there is enough room in the boot to fit a saddle, your riding kit and a bale of hay in

-jods become your legwear of choice

-you would rather poo pick your horses field than go shopping
 
I like this thread it has a feel good factor - you know you're addicted to horses when in bed you are reading a book and laughing to yourself and the OH leans over and says that must be a good book you've been laughing like a drain for 20 minutes and asks what it is and discovers it's a Thelwell book from my childhood - he just doesn't get it!!!
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