You know your a horse person when...

eva said:
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when you hug somebody and scratch or pat their backs (nearly stopped myself saying "you're such a good boy" recently) :D
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Just peed myself laughing - I could just imagine doing that to our guys at work - part of my job is to sort out who goes in which meeting room and I am continually herding them around the office - perhaps I need a lunge whip...

Oh and I keep talking about giving the kids their feed and I do the hup for kids feet and on my bike find myself thanking drivers on the other side of the road as they pass.. Oh god, no hope for me..
 
No one wants to wash their clothes with yours because they'll come out covered in horse hair...
your walking down the road, and you measure your strides out before stepping over the first line...
Seeing a log/pole/fallen down tree, and imagining how could it would be to jump it..
Going passed a field and saying how much you would love to gallop in it :D:D
 
LizzyandToddy said:
when you go to pull something out of your pocket and you get a handful of straw and hay aswell!
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This happens with the majority of coats/jumpers/etc I own. :rolleyes:

Tormenta said:
You tell your child to 'walk on' or 'stand'. This includes the canine species too.

You absent mindedly click your tongue to hurry your children along. :)
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Yup. I do this too. Along with a quick poke in the ribs when they don't respond to my saying 'over'.


Let's see...you know you're a horse person when...your 'nice' clothes are the ones without straw/hay/shavings/feed/etc. all over them! :D
 
This has made me smile!

Clicking at the kids and saying "steady" when they go hairing off - check.

Car resembling a mobile tack/feed room - check (isn't that what they are?)

Coat pockets full of hay/ straw/ shavings/ stray polos - check.

Tucking into a sarnie on the run and then seeing the colour of your hands....check.

Turning up for the school run red faced and sweaty, in half chaps and spurs, and being given some very odd looks.... check.


One to add - "seeing a stride" when you are approaching the curb....The urge to go for a "long one" is strong, but I'm a good girl and I take a check.....:D
 
Ducking under braches when your driving the car.

I also measure my stride to curbs/white lines etc

Thinking about 'collecting' yourself when out running and you come to the top of a hill.

Clicking at the car, talking about it getting the bit between its teeth when its running well.

And lots of the others that have been mentioned.
 
Yep, I do the clicking thing, not good at work:o
I definitely have junk encrusted pockets
The worst for me is that when I go to work having done the horses outside in the cold my face reddens up like a beetroot. Not cool, I look like I have been at the gin.
 
steadyeddy said:
When you are walking along a road and you thank a car driver for going by you slowly!!!!!!!!!
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:D lol i think i live near you!!! there is a girl who does this regularly to me.. lol!!!! ;) as for the rest ..yep its years since i have had my horse but they are deeply ingrained!! lol!! x
 
When I overtake in my little car I find myself clicking, and when we finally manage it I pat the steering wheel and tell her she's a good girl :P

Lol i'm so glad i'm not the only one that strides the cracks in pavement/kerb! I get massive satifiation if I get it on a good stride! :D
 
when you get home from the yard and your family all exclaim 'You really smell' to which your reply is 'but i like it!'

There is one song by Michael Buble that when i sing along i always sing the wrong words - actually lyrcs are 'We'll be alright, we'll be united' - but i cant help but sing 'We'll alright but we're disunited' :D
 
LOL, I can say yes to just about everything here!!

When my inlaws ask me what I want for xmas and I REALLY want to say a bag of feed or chaff, a bale of shavings, a new broom, etc as it would be ALOT cheaper and practical than the nice scented bath sets I always seem to get but can't use because my skin is allergic to stuff!
 
madeleine1 said:
im a brown owl and the brownies were dordaling on the walk back to the hall and i said 'walk on' without even thinking about it. brownie turns round and says im not a horse. my responce was stop acting like my moody mare then:p
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ROFL!
My OH has got used to being talked to like a horse,son knows no different.
They both respond to walk on,stand over ect and OH puts up with me ducking around to stay on the left :D
 
You wax lyrical to your horsey friends about some gorgeous post & rail fencing you've seen
Cars are automatically discounted when they can't carry more than 1 bale of shavings
Non horsey friends refuse to travel in your car because it smells
 
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When you're just about to leave for work and they're looking at you over fence so you just pop them say hay in and turn up for work with hay in your hair and the kids say Miss you've got stuff in your hair.

Once on the doorstep we had pots flowers now we have boots/whips/grooming stuff/bridles/lead ropes and a bucket of apples of course!

When you trying to find a jacket in the car that doesn't smell of horse!
 
I count *One, Two, Three* into every speed bump and I admit that I do lean forwards as I jump it....sad

I hup and click the children, they and the dog get spoken to like the horses, but they are used to it :D

I drive my car around corners thinking about engagement and lines :)

I can conjure up pretty much anything out of the back of my car that is horse related.

When I went into the local toy shop the other day, straight from a concert at my boy's school, the owner was besides herself telling me how lovely it was to see me in a dress...what she meant was how lovely it was to see me out of my yard clothes and looking clean :D Made me realise that I really should make more of an effort - I put my yard clothes on in the morning and peel them off when I go to bed...
 
devilwoman said:
tap the kids ankles and say "up" when putting their shoes on.
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yep i do this one to my step son - but even funnier is when he says it to himself!

My OH takes no time in telling me how i stink and need to go for a shower! discretion no longer needed its a fact.

you dread giving anyone a lift as my car is full of rugs and numnahs!

my breeches cost more than my jeans!

your use the internet purely to look at horsey stuff and your facebook updates are all about horses!
 
kez1001 said:
my breeches cost more than my jeans!
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Breeches are Pikeur, £140....jeans are from Dorothy Perkins....and if someone suggested I spend £140 on a pair of trousers I would tell them to take a hike, but think nothing of slobbing around the yard in £140 breeches...go figure!

And boots....my boots are all around the £200 mark, and I would never spend that on a pair of boots or shoes for *best*

My saddle is worth more than my car too....
 
You walk in from doing the horses and everyone says that you smell - I simply say "It costs alot of money to smell like this, so stop complaining"!!!
 
montyforever said:
When theres a bridle hangin on the coat rack, rugs on the table, various horse equiptment everywhere, hay everywhere .. i could go on and on :rolleyes:
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Looking around at the moment I can see.....

A pair of fetlock boots on the porch window sill.
A curb chain on the kitchen window sill, next to some bit rubbers....
The dog is sleeping on a fleecy cooler.....
...and there are 2 headcollars hanging from the cooking utensil rack!
 
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