You know you've been around horses too long when............

glamourpuss said:
I only realised when my eldest boy whined about the 'weird way' I hold his hand that I did it differently to everyone else.
I hold hands hooking my little finger over the outside of the other persons hand....in effect passing their hand between my 4th & 5th finger like a giant rein!
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same lol, with little hands it's really easy to do and my little finger could curl quite easily around their wrist! :D i frequently tell the dogs to walk on , have done it to my nephew too but didn't tell his mum!!
 
p87 said:
Haha YES!! I kept that part quiet... but now I know I'm not alone I feel semi comfortable with it being out in the open! Even when riding, if my horse starts acting up my deep, gruff, angry yorkshire farmer voice comes out - GIT UUUUPPP! GIT ONNN!!! Best part is it always works :P
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Ha ha, it has to be a "giiiiit upppp!"

I also once found myself turning right in the car and thinking, keep the outside hand, give with the inside, outside leg back... I was working for a dressage rider at the time but I'm sure the Astra benefited... :)
 
NellRosk said:
..I think it's perfectly acceptable to go into morrisons covered in hay/ shavings/ straw/ poo/ mud. Once in the queue a little girl said 'mummy why does that lady smell' I was looking round thinking who is she on about?! Then realised it was me :o
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Ha ha this is me every week doing the Friday big shop!:D
 
...Anything that is castrated is a gelding
Children are referred to as yearlings, or 2 or 3yos accordingly
Pregnant people (or actually anything pregnant) are 'in foal'

Im another guilty of saying walk on, good boy etc
I also find i imagine myself doing gymkhana weaving in and out of traffic cones when there is road works!!
 
Another one - found myself saying 'HUP!' really loudly to my pushbike over speed bumps, and telling her to 'Steeeeady!' when braking going downhill.

I say 'Stand!' when expecting people to wait a minute.

Also general use of 'Oi!' and 'Eh-eh!' when people irritate me or do something wrong...

Also forget that leggings aren't socially acceptable to wear as trousers... they look like jodhpurs though!!

Having to apologise for the smell of my car...

My mum brandishing bits of leather at me and saying 'I'm assuming these are horse-related!!!!'

Not knowing when I last bought clothes that weren't horsy.

Being told that presents for the horse aren't presents for me (what? no!!)

When your very unhorsy parents come back from Vienna and they are very proud that they knew what collection was before the commentator at the Spanish Riding School told them. Obviously all those dinnertime conversations between my sister and I didn't just go over their heads as they've claimed... but ruined it slightly when they said that they though they were supposed to be good, some of them spooked as much as my horse...

When the Robinsons, Equestrian Clearance and Rideaway guys know who you are and comment that it's been a while.

When you whicker to your horse so much that you realise you've started doing it to your OH when you cuddle.
 
khalswitz said:
When your very unhorsy parents come back from Vienna and they are very proud that they knew what collection was before the commentator at the Spanish Riding School told them. Obviously all those dinnertime conversations between my sister and I didn't just go over their heads as they've claimed... but ruined it slightly when they said that they though they were supposed to be good, some of them spooked as much as my horse...
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Oh gosh, yes, my dear old mum has never been "horsey" as such, and when I was a kid just dumped me at the nearest riding stables and let me get on with it, and then, bless 'er, let me have my first pony....... and never ever took any interest in horses, anything on the TV etc etc., although she would watch a bit of eventing/showjumping occasionally if it was on.

But within the last year (she's in her 90's now)...... I had to go out just as some showjumping was coming up, and bless her cotton socks, she kept a note of ALL the clears and who'd done them, AND was able to tell me that some of them were having trouble at a certain fence, AND that some horses were seeming to "put in an extra stride" at a certain fence but others were obviously lacking impulsion which is why they weren't jumping clear!!!! So peeps, keep at it, you WILL get a horsey mum if you try hard enough!!!:):) - eventually!
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Oh gosh, yes, my dear old mum has never been "horsey" as such, and when I was a kid just dumped me at the nearest riding stables and let me get on with it, and then, bless 'er, let me have my first pony....... and never ever took any interest in horses, anything on the TV etc etc., although she would watch a bit of eventing/showjumping occasionally if it was on.

But within the last year (she's in her 90's now)...... I had to go out just as some showjumping was coming up, and bless her cotton socks, she kept a note of ALL the clears and who'd done them, AND was able to tell me that some of them were having trouble at a certain fence, AND that some horses were seeming to "put in an extra stride" at a certain fence but others were obviously lacking impulsion which is why they weren't jumping clear!!!! So peeps, keep at it, you WILL get a horsey mum if you try hard enough!!!:):) - eventually!
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My mum's exact words were something along the line of :

"Well, there was one horse, and it was slower, but had all this power, and it looked like its bum was really low compared to its shoulders, and I said to your dad, isn't that what the girls try to do, and then the man said it was collected, and see, I was right - the two ladies sitting next to us were very impressed I was right, that that was a good horse that was very well trained. So I can tell. However the other one at the back that was dancing about and being silly - it didn't look good enough to be there, it's almost as bad as the girls' horses with their silly dancing. So I don't think it will last."
"But Mum, was it a young one?"
"Maybe, but it should be seen and not heard."

So the first step on a long road I think... but my sis and I were impressed that they could tell the difference between our horses and the SRS tbh - ours do enough airs above the ground...
 
Tern said:
When you start cantering in the house instead of walking or running...
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Yup. And jumping the little metal bit between doorways. Did it age 7, still do it age 21...

I also 'spooked' when mum flung the front door open and told her to 'wooaaah now, steady". She was not impressed

cobgoblin said:
When you calculate the cost of buying something for yourself in bales of haylage!
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Also do this, one jumper is three lessons!

My boyfriend now responds well to pokes in the side meaning move over, but dislikes being told "OI!! Be'aaaaaaaave!!"
 
So I had to expand my "office" work wardrobe this week, so I automatically head for the second hand shop and am stoked when I come home with three blouses for a grand total of $57.

.... 'cos I spent $200 on a summer riding jacket last week.
 
I was making myself some lunch today at home and thought 'ooh I better get a bucket out to put the feed in'....

I've spent far too much time with the ponies!!
 
I thought of this thread yesterday. We were staying with friends in Wiltshire this weekend and they took us to the standing stones at Avebury. The whole time I was there I was keeping an eye out in case Andrew Nicholson came past on his Avebury. I think my friends thought I was nuts as I kept giggling to myself about it.
 
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