Your 'oops' moments

These are soooo funny! OH thinks I am mad, laughing at the laptop :D

Mine have only been minor incidents! First, the saddle racks in our tack room are along two rows, one above the other at about 5' high. My saddle was on the top row for ages - not easy to hoist it up to that height, so I was really pleased when a rack became available on the bottom row. So now, when putting the saddle away, I clonk my head on the top rack EVERY TIME!

Other one was this week when I flung H's rug over the wall in the barn to dry and the heavy metal clasp swung back and knocked me smack in the mouth - cue one chipped tooth! :rolleyes:
 
These. Are. BRILLIANT!

Im getting funny looks from the rest of the family as im trying not to laugh and i end up snorting. :D:D


Last summer my pony refused to come anywhere near me as he wanted to eat as much grass as he could. Whilst i was running after him swearing and throwing things at him in temper (after 1.5 hours of trying and he was very pleased with himself, dont worry though, pony was not harmed in anyway) i managed to slip in a pile of s**t that he had just made. So I got a backside full of fresh s**t. was not impressed as i stunk to high heaven and my jods stained :(

Also when my pony was in a field shelter we kept a fork by the gate for the straw that got put in. Some idiot had it against the electric fence, which is normally off. I reach for fork whilst talking to friend and "HOLY S**T!!!*
 
I have two. First yard I ever worked on, I had a cheap pair of wellies (not 100% sure on horses and didn't want to spend a tonne on something I may never use) the ramp up to the muck heap was frozen and I tried to push a full barrow up, lost my footing, barrow fell of the ramp as did one of my legs, whacking my nether regions on the edge of the ramp. Had a lovely bruise/graze on my (very) upper thigh.
Second one is reaching to a saddle on the top row of racks and the stirrups falling of and smacking me in the face :/
 
I was in a mad hurry one morning to get the yard fed, and flipped the bottom latches on the doors up with my toe, stuck the bucket in, came out and flipped the latches back. One horse had pulled all his rugs down on the floor and peed on them so I flipped the latch back, went in pulling the door behind me and the heard the metal on metal sound of the latch shutting behind me :eek:

Wonderful I thought, I'll just climb out over the door. Well its a high door but I just about managed it, turning on the top so I could come down facing the door. My jacket got caught on the top latch as I went down. Damn jacket pulled up right above my boobs taking my jumper with it, just as I lost my footing and landed on my knees. Oh you'd think I'd just get up and unhitch myself fairly sharpish, but no, my knee had locked so I was left hanging with my bust and tum on display. (We're not talking a fit young bod of a 21 yr old here either, think Mr Blobby after middle aged spread).

And just then the farriers arrived... Oh yes they loved it - having to lift me to unhitch me, help me up and straighten me out. They get a lot of biscuits and cake each time they come now, just to ensure their silence :D
 
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Struggling with a really awful gate out hacking and had to get off, somehow managed to let go of my horse while I was wrestling with the gate, ordinarily he would just stand there as he was a bit of a dobbin, but this day he fancied a bit of excitement and sprinted off leaving me horseless and my friend sat on her horse wondering what to do! We knew he couldn't get onto the road or anything but wondered how we'd get him back, when he suddenly realised he was by himself and turned round and cantered back literally right into my arms!! Bless. :D I miss him - he was always entertaining.
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Very similar to this ^ but mine wandered off rather than sprinted ... which somehow is even more annoying than when they leg it at speed isn't it?! Couldn't catch the sod either! We were going through some farm land and I knew gate out to road would be closed so wasn't too concerned. It was however quite embarrasing when we wandered upon a group of cyclists. I'm sure they must of wondered what on earth the idiot girl was doing following her fully tacked up horse on a nice country walk :o
 
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Haha some of these are hilarious :p I'm giggling away :D.

I can't think of any specific major boobs aside from the classic carrying a haynet (at a competition :o) and getting it stuck on a spur (roller ball type). Whilst turning round to free said leg managed to somehow get it stuck on the other spur...wobbled...wobbled and gone! Cue very muddy kneed beige jodhpurs and an embarassed looking me. My only saving grace being that I always have spare jods!

Like others on here however I have a 'patting' thing. I don't do it with the car but almost always when leaving my motorbike I pat either the bonnet or the tail :confused: must come from patting the horses after a ride I guess! :o:rolleyes:
 
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Some of these are hilarious.
I just remembered in summer when ted was living out 24/7 he was a real bugger to catch.
He would do that thing where he would walk off, or just trot a couple of steps. My OH was watching me from down the end of the track, and Ted was about to trot off, and I managed to grab onto the only thing I could... which was his tail (Ted doesnt kick by the way).

So there was me for 5 mins, hanging onto teds tail waving a handful of grass at him, being walked round and round and round the field. Until I gave up. hahaha
My OH tried to get it on video, but was a bit to far away. He was in absolute stitches though, I walked down and was so grumpy threw the head collar at him.... thanks for the help lol.
 
These are so funny!!

I also had an 'oops' with a gate :P
See the video below...imagine trying to unlatch a gate while that's going on, then imagine a herd of young, excited cows advancing on you! Poor old Blob was completely unaware! I jumped off, landed in the puddle while he was still splashing me and I finally did the gate and got us both through! Phew! Both of us were dripping wet and cold and were passed the point of no return! A looong ride home XD

 
Edit above - was in car mode then stupid Internet went down! I meant fuel tank or tail not *bonnet*! My bike doesn't have a bonnet!...at least not when I last looked! :D
 
Was wearing a long waxed jacket to hack as it was raining, when I came back and dismounted I swung my leg over, but the coat got stuck on the saddle and I was literally left dangling on the side of my horse, completely stuck! He just stood really still while I called loudly for help!
 
fair few yrs ago a young girl turned up at yard with her first horse novice rider. she was bit nervous got on the horse. she started walking to the menarge and her pony did a 360 and trotted to the stables where he ran into my stable and the top door was shut and the girl got swept off lol oooopppppsssss
 
I've got a few, but this is probably one of the daftest....

Whilst in my horse's stable, having finished mucking out his huge straw bed, I thought it would be a good idea (why??) to get out my air guitar and play a nice mellow version of 'Ace of Spades'-cue me stepping backwards whilst really going for it and tripping on the edge of the bed. Not wanting to drop my guitar, I completely failed to try to stop myself falling over and promptly fell over, still holding it, to land at my horse's feet. The look he gave me was just priceless :D

No one saw me.....
 
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I've got a few, but this is probably one of the daftest....

Whilst in my horse's stable, having finished mucking out his huge straw bed, I thought it would be a good idea (why??) to get out my air guitar and play a nice mellow version of 'Ace of Spades'-cue me stepping backwards whilst really going for it and tripping on the edge of the bed. Not wanting to drop my guitar, I completely failed to try to stop myself falling over and promptly fell over, still holding it, to land at my horse's feet. The look he gave me was just priceless :D

No one saw me.....
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Love it!
 
I once was getting on my old loan mare from the mounting block. She was only 14.3 and the block was fairly high so instead of putting my foot in the stirrup I just swung my leg over. Unfortunately as I got on, she walked off. So I got stuck hanging half off her side looking like a rubbish spiderman, unable to get right on and unable to drop off. Had to shout my mum to catch her and make her stand so I could sort myself out. Worst bit is half the yard saw as it was a busy saturday morning :o
 
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Haha the air guitar story is fantastic!!

I have quite a big step into some mud next to my stable underneath where the door swings open & the door is quite high. I always put my tack on the door when I've finished a ride and one day totally forgot about the huge dip, twisted my ankle and god knows how, ended up stuck under the door!! (OH says I pulled the door off its hinges a bit and its quite heavy so just dropped on me) and he wouldn't help me out until he'd gave the whole yard an opportunity a chance to take pictures/videos etc.
Its funny now, but I was livid at the time thanks to all the help that I totally blamed it on the poor OH!
 
Sneaked into tescos to grab stuff for dinner after competing one day.

God knows how but got one spur stuck in the other... tripped forward... stood on my own left foot with my own right foot... went flying down the veg aisle face first and the contents of the basket - flying!

Cue most of tescos doubling up in laughter, and not one person helping me up!!!
 
My best moment was last weekend. Took Charlie for a good gallop round the local country park accompanied by a friend and her pony. Charlie took off up the hill and kept going at a canter, not even a fast one. I just couldn't pull him up!

Kept going all along the path dodging past dog walkers and apologising very loudly to everybody we met, at a very slow canter.

I bet I looked absolutely stupid! :rolleyes:
 
I've fallen over carrying 2 water buckets across the yard. (Ones other foot got in the way of the other one) and with me going head first first, followed by 2 water buckets and the water second.... I got wet. :o
I've also fallen over (sense the theme here) giving a newly off the lead rein kid a lesson. She was just trying to canter, and I was kinda running alongside her, but directing pony at the same time and went splat.... over one of them jump blok things...........that I had put there to steer around. I can't even make the excuse that I didn't know it was there!! DOH
 
My first pony trod on my foot and I threw a plastic curry comb across the field shelter in temper. There was a round bale in the corner and the brush went down behind it, genius climbed on top and tried to lean down in the corner to reach it, fell and got stuck head first between the corner and bale. I was there for 5 mins until somebody came and pulled me out by my ankles!
Believe it or not, that was the second time I had been stuck upside down. I leant over the petting area wall to pet a bunny at the farm park when I was about 5, couldn't quite make it, so reached a bit more, and weee over I went onto my face with my legs in the air. I must like inspecting the floor in close proximity
 
Some fab stories :D My whole life is abit of an oops moment to be honest :o ;) :p :D :D

Heres afew caught on camera.

Herbie lunging
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Herbie in the BEST TURNEDOUT CLASS :rolleyes:
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Lucy in her field/pond
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Lucy doing dressage :rolleyes:
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Gotta love her timing in the canter :p

Last one I promise. ;)
Teaching my little dog to play fetch. I thought he was bringing the ball back to me. :rolleyes:
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I was stood at the mounting block, sorting out my stirrups ready to get on. I don't quite know what happened, but I managed to slip (whilst stood opposite the mounting block on the perfectly flat and level floor) and ended up sitting cross legged on the ground still holding the stirrup leather, which I'd manged to pull off the saddle in the process. Horse just turned to look at me with the "what the hell are you doing down their woman?" expression on his face, the yard owner was laughing hysterically and I had a huge great hole in the knee of my brand new jod's. The The Yard Owner didn't help me get up, just continued laughing at my expense. :o

Another one, it was two years ago when we had all the snow. I'd just done a full muck out and was on my way to the muck heap with a full wheelbarrow. The exit form the yard was on a slope. I slid all the way down the slope still holding the wheelbarrow which was gaining speed quicker than me, my foot caught on a rock, which resulted in me sitting on my backside and the wheelbarrow tipped up, due to my sudden stop and emptied it's contents all over me. Being covered in stinking, wet beddding was not my idea of fum lol. obviously the whole yard cracked up at me that day too. :rolleyes:

I think I'm just a klutz lol
 
These are great. Here are a few eejit moments.

Last year the field my horse lived in was full of deep, churned up, sticky mud. I went to catch my horse, struggled to get to her, but got there eventually and put her halter on, and turned to lead her to gate. I thought I was going to move, horse thought I was going to move, but welly got totally stuck so the horse crashed into me and I fell over in the mud and out of the welly. I was then hopping around on one foot, holding onto very patient horse for balance, trying to free welly from mud, which by then had hardened around boot. Eventually, after much faff and flailing around, I freed the welly but still had to walk back to the gate, which I did by clinging onto horse and letting her kind of pull me through the mud.

I've also done the grabbing electric fence thing when falling over in mud. Even sillier was when I was mounted, trying to open one of those gates that's actually a strand of electric tape with a rubber handle and hook at the end. I'd done this before successfully, in fairness. This particular time, I was uncoordinated or at the wrong angle or something, and I accidentally brushed horse with electric tape, zapping both of us. Saint of a horse stood and shuddered, but did not bolt. Sorry, sweetie.

Speaking of gates, just the other day I was trying to open a gate mounted and was attempting to back horse up so she was better aligned with gate. Normally obedient, soft horse was flat-out refusing to back. Eventually, she grudgingly obliged and stepped backwards into deep, icy mud, sinking halfway up her cannon bone. Whoops, sorry I asked for that.

Many years ago, I took the first horse I owned to kids' dressage camp, six or seven months after I had bought her. Camp was at the local fairgrounds and we stayed in dorms on the grounds and the horses stayed in the fairground's stables. I was 14. Awkward age, under the best of circumstances. The horse also decided the whole camp and fairgrounds experience was really stressful, mainly concluding that she didn't like the stalls at the fairgrounds, thus if you had her out, she would refuse to go back in until about half an hour of bribes and coercion (in various combinations) later. Every time. She also kept bolting and bucking during lessons. There's nothing more embarrassing than being 14, socially awkward, surrounded by other 14-year old girls (most of whom were, to my mind, intimidatingly cool and had ponies since they were about 7) and having the nappiest horse in the camp.
 
Probably more my husband's oops moment, but could be considered a joint effort. I was chatting to my OH in his horse's stable whilst fastening up the rug. Said I was off to go and do my horse, he said hmm as he usually does (but was obviously not actually listening as he often doesn't), I left the stable without bolting the door as he was still in there. Unfortunately I did not realise my OH had got desperate and decided to take a leak at the back of the stable. His horse thought it was a good opportunity to push open the door and go for a walk, he was followed by his Dad running after him shouting whilst pulling his pants up!
 
Towards the end of summer last year my OH, sister and myself took my share horse for a hand walk in the woods. It was quite muddy but I only had trainers or riding boots to wear and the boots gave me blisters so I wore my trainers. I had hold of the horse and was walking along when I stepped into the mud. Unfortunately I didn't realise in time and continued to walk! Luckily the horse was on a lunge line so I could just loosen it and he didn't pull me over! But I had one very muddy sock after that. :(
 
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