Your 'oops' moments

I was feeling incredibly lazy and felt too much effort to bend down and pick up the yard broom, so I stood on the end of it and the broom came flying towards my head in which I broke the solid wooden broom in 2 :eek: I call it my special Karate chop :rolleyes: forgot to mention my fore-head hurt for the next few days hahaha
 
becca1305 said:
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!
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This reminded me of another classic. Out hacking (sorry all mine seem to be out hacking which is why I don't go out on my own anymore!) with my sister dawdling along a tiny country lane that sees about 1 car a week. Horses side by side on the buckle and we hear a car, there is a big verge so we tried to get onto it, my horse decided it was too scary, backed into the side of my sisters horse and managed to get her spur caught in his tail, she promptly bursts into hysterics, I look round and see whats happened, also crease up, neither of us can even sit up straight to sort the situation out, poor driver must have thought we were bats. Luckily both horses were none the wiser and mine didnt seem to mind having his tail attached to his friend. We managed to get up the verge still attached and let the car pass. We still can't discuss this episode without wetting outselves.

Also, last week my friend came off out hacking (see I'm a liability to ride with!) and was unhurt but her whole johd boot and chap went flying off, still attached together and landed miles from where she came off! Very weird!

I also have been known to thank drivers and praise my bike when out for a bike ride with husband!
 
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Tinsel Trouble said:
In my first ever driving lesson- you remember the one where you weave all over the road and kangaroo at every junction- I thanked every passing car! Force of habit! Driving instructor was stunned!!
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:D
Most of these have had me in stitches, much needed, thankyou :D
 
Had an "oppps" moment the last two days! Yesterday I had to break the ice in the field (we use an old bath). I used my foot as I felt I was capable to put enough pressure on the ice to break, without submerging my foot....yeah right! Foot went straight through (after a couple of stamps) and jeeez! Water was cold.

So this morning, I thought I can learn from my mistakes and try a different take. I noticed that there was a piece of string coming out of the water - and I thought great! I'll pull on that, which will break the ice. I pulled and it worked! Yay! Till I heard a trickling noise...realised I pulled the bloody plug out! Had to plunge my whole arm in to put it back!!

Wonder what I'll do tomorrow..!!
 
Trying to think of my 'oops' moments, I'm sure there's been more than plenty...
Went to give the horse his haynet and someone thought it would be funny to close over the top half of the door. I stood there shouting and banging down the door for a good 10 minutes only to realise the doors open from the inside too. Everyone was in stitches.

As for thanking drivers, I always do that on my bike, I thought it was common practise :o God help my driving instructor when it comes to me driving so :p

I'm sure there's more stupid things I've done... falling into a drain while crossing a home made "bridge". Have managed to let go of horse out hacking, queue him trotting off. Have lost a friends horse from the stable, I thought I'd closed the latch but it didn't click, turn round to see 17.2hh of shiny horse exploring the muck heap. In the same stable (also the one I got locked into) I had my horse tied up outside, I'd just plaited him and washed his tail when he untied himself and legged in down to the XC course!
 
We had two with the 'Pink Pair' (Aooy and a Bay roan) One was when sister and I were riding side by side on the road, both horses stopped and the Appy managed to manouver herself so that sister and I ended up with strirrup leathers entagled :D We were laughing so much we had diffculty untanglng!
The second one was when a flock of killer sheep decided to attack :eek: That was what the Appy decided as a fair few of them came to the wall beside the road. She refused to move so sister took her mare in front. All fine but then sister waved a car down with her schooling whip, the top two inches of the stick were broken, but held on by the covering, she looked like Mavis Cruet from Will o' the Whisp :D Another time when we could barely move off for laughng. The woman with the sheep was equally hysterical :D
 
Angelbones said:
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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This is very funny
 
My latest one was yesterday.
I have those new Wintec stirrup leathers that use hook things instead of buckles. So you don't run them up the way you do normal ones.
Anyway, yesterday, got the hippo tacked up and hopped on...only to realise that my stirrups were still in steeplechaser position, so to speak!
My YO very kindly rescued me as I was giggling too much to fix them...
 
OH locked the back door just as I got to it, and did not let me in when I asked him to open it (can't remember why now, but he thought it was funny), any way I lost my temper and kicked the door, breaking the window. Then had to drive myself to hospital to get 6 or 7 stitches in my foot, as I had bare feet.

Yes I felt pretty silly.
 
These are brilliant! :D

My big sis was talking to me when I was mucking out her stable one day before I had horsey of my own. She went off to do something else, shut stable door over and kicked the bottom latch over! Force of habit. I was left in there for a good 10 mins before one of the yard peoples came to let me out becuase she hadn't heard me shouting :rolleyes:

Another day I was going to catch big sis's horse and walked down to the field with the yard crash test dummy who was going to catch in hers. Talking away and not really paying attention to what I was doing, I espied a red rugged horse that was piebald with white face markings.
I go to put headcollar on said horsey and crash test dummy starts looking at me funny :confused: I look round and up to see that it is not my sisters horse I'm attempting to put headcollar on but am apparently in the process of kidnapping one of the livery horses :eek: I had a wee giggle to myself and went off to catch the right horse as crash test dummy wets herself and shouts "don't worry I won't tell anyone!" :D
 
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