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

I terrified my non horsey (read: a bit scared of horses) boyfriend one day by standing in the middle of a stampede of three horses all vying for pole position to be caught to be brought in and fed. While I stood there, mud spraying everywhere, manes flying, me tutting and telling them to STAND UUUUPPPPP AND BEHAVE YOURSELVES OR NO ONE WILL BE GETTING FED!!! I turn round to see the poor boyfriend cowering in a hedge lol

I don't bat an eyelid at things like that. Wonder what he would have thought if he saw me today. Out poo picking the field, the shetland comes over for a nosy and one of the mares decided to snake head and charge at her, barrow went flying, shetland tried jumping over me to get away and snake head came at me instead. Instead of legging it I spread my arms out like a bad assed eagle and roared GET AWAY!!! at the mare, and she scurried off, tail literally between her legs ;)

As if he wasn't scared enough of horses before, with no experience of them, now that he sees these kind of things in action I think I may have made it worse... oops.... although he does like the shetland, I caught him giving her a sneaky stroke the other week, he won't go anywhere near the others ;)
 
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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Haha I do this too!! And was only when my three year old started telling me to hold his hand 'pwopwee' did I notice I was doing it! How bizarre, and so relieved I'm not the only one!
 
Shutterbug said:
I am always very conscious of my position as I'm driving over speed bumps :D
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I found speed bumps a great way to teach one of my pupils jumping position - she had been totally unable to grasp the concept - I noticed her lean forward as we went over a speed bump and yelled" hey that's it - jumping position!" She looked at me as if I were mad so we went around and went over them again. After that jumping position came fine!

My car is very good at half pass after overtaking another vehicle!
 
People who have had their hair cut have been clipped.
Anyone who has a day off work from illness are on box rest.
I call groceries feed.
I hip bump people too and ask over when in my way :) slightly embarrassing that one!
I call housework mucking out - which too be fair the amount of straw that congregates in the conservatory it is like a stable.
I also tell people to walk on and small children to stand.

I'm glad I'm not alone in all this.
 
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Your box room of terraced house is more tack room than bedroom!

I count 3 bridles, 1 saddle, 4 boxes of rosettes, 1 box dressage score sheets, 1 box dressage show paraphernalia and a set of jump numbers!
 
Ashgrove said:
When I'm out with the kids when we stop at the road side before crossing I tell them to stand, when the road is clear/the green man comes on I tell them to walk on :eek:
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LOL!! My little boy attaches the dogs lead to his cars and tells them to "Staaaaand, ok walk on *click click click*
 
The vet was examining my cat when I announced "I think she needs more topline"

Was out in my lunch hour with work colleagues, they both had umbrellas up, they though it was hilarious I hadn't even clocked the rain.

Also a horsepersons' ability to change ground conditions without spooking - dry ground - deep mud - neck deep puddles - back to dry ground - all without breaking stride .
 
My Mum was complaining the other day that I needed new clothes. So, I told her I had bought new clothes - two pairs of breeches and a fleece at YHL last week! She was not amused!
 
When I lived in France, we'd go skiing most weekends. My friends were highly amused at me telling my skis to steady up down tricky runs.

I also remember when I was about 17 watching Hickstead with my Dad and he laughed at me leaning forward over every jump. This one girl came into the ring and within about 5 strides of canter I said she was a rubbish rider. Dad insisted there was no way I, an amateur rider who'd never gone of 3'6" could pass judgement on a professional rider in the Hickstead Derby. She fell off at fence four having already had 2 stops.
 
nursery told me my little girl had been a bit chilly in her light coat at playtime. they looked bemused when I said 'ok - time to go into her medium weight'.
 
I find that if ive been for a long road hack.. when im driving home i sometimes find myself waving thank you to oncoming cars.
On another note, p87, when you say GET AWAY, do yo find yourself doing it in a Yorkshire accent? When i hay the fields, i tend to load the wheel barrow, fling the gate open and charge in shouting GET AWAY like ive had a tea overdose!
I watch my dog to see what leg he is on when he is running over the fields. I also click at him and tell him to stand and walk on lol!
 
I haven't ridden or owned a horse in about 10 years and I STILL do loads of these! So its not something that disappears in time. These include:

1. Clicking at boyfriend and/or dog to walk across the road at the green man
2. Imagining galloping/jumping the fields/ditches/hedges while on the train commute to work
3. Holding the dog lead the same way you hold reins (I also do the little finger over thing when holding boyfriend's hand!)
4. Randomly cantering and jumping curls/obstacles while out and about (I'm 32!!)
5. Not giving a stuff what I look like when out with the dog (I think this is a horsey relic as all the other dog walkers seem to give their appearance some kind of attention)
 
apple88 said:
On another note, p87, when you say GET AWAY, do yo find yourself doing it in a Yorkshire accent? When i hay the fields, i tend to load the wheel barrow, fling the gate open and charge in shouting GET AWAY like ive had a tea overdose!
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Haha, I totally did/do this. Although its more of a GIT AWAY. I also still have a scary growl when telling dog/s off.
 
Ashgrove said:
When I'm out with the kids when we stop at the road side before crossing I tell them to stand, when the road is clear/the green man comes on I tell them to walk on :eek:
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Same here. Also with the dog. This is handy be cause I can control all my children and a loose dog from on horseback when we come to a road. :)
 
Getting totally distracted when watching Spamalot because King Arthur was cantering on the wrong leg. Didn't take in a single thing from scene 1!
 
mines a bit the other way thinking I have been with dogs for too long. The amount of times I have told pony to 'sit, and stay'!!
 
apple88 said:
On another note, p87, when you say GET AWAY, do yo find yourself doing it in a Yorkshire accent? When i hay the fields, i tend to load the wheel barrow, fling the gate open and charge in shouting GET AWAY like ive had a tea overdose!
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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
 
My mum asked me for some ideas for Christmas/birthday this year. I compiled a list of:
New riding boots
New muck boots
Show jacket
Bridle
Money to hire a box and go to the beach

She sighed and said 'I thought you would have picked something normal by now'
So, set to the new task, I went to think of something else.
The most I could muster was a Greys Anatomy boxset.
Later on I went 'Ooh! A subscription to Your Horse!' Glare off mum.....'Ok, maybe a subscription to Cosmo?!' :D
 
I click at my car up hills and tell him to "woah up" if we're going a bit quick, also growl "git up!!" if he is being tricky to get started. I tell people to lay over, not sure if that's something only said in racing or not but means move over im case it's confused anyone!

Was once watching a football match with my family (not by choice) when a player fell over and acted like his legs had fallen off. After a while he got up and ran off and I said, "well hes trotted up sound so he'll be fine" .. Took me a while to work out why I was getting funny looks!!
 
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