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  • #21
    Actually, you can buy cross country ski gloves. They have a leather palm for grip and feel and an absorbent back for ..um..wiping sweat from your brow or otherwise... And they wash up just fine too. Great invention for winter riding.

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    • #22
      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Phaxxton:
      Can't say I haven't done it, too.

      I think it's like peeing in a stall - Most of us have done it, but few of us will admit to it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

      Hand raised--- I'll admit, I've peed in the stall. Now being freezing in the N.E. I hold it until I get home.

      The nose thing, I've used my riding gloves
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      • #23
        Umm..Have yet to perfect the logistics of Stall pee-ing. Besides, Bob's stall is front and center, 2 open sides,primo real estate, but privacy is non-existant...
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        • #24
          Guilty. I am actually happy on the days it is freezing. Then, the nose goo freezes up.
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            #25
            Ok, its looking like I have to fess up to something on my own darn thread, I'm a stall pee-er too...a) I also have an aversion to porta-potties, b) the seats are cold now c) I have to walk all the way across the property to get to there d) I have a pavolovian issue with peeing RIGHT before I get on.....I'm wondering if maybe the nose wiping, stall peeing is all related.
            And, I need to rethink my jacket for riding, since the cuff on the one I currently use is ribbed and making my nose hurt...of course if I could act like I was not raised by wolves, then none of this would be an issue.

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            • #26
              Oh, I have no shame whatsoever to admitting having peed in the stall or wiping my nose on my sleeve. In fact just yesterday I was in a lesson, approaching a fence, when a LOOOONG string of uh, goo, started dripping from my nose. Without missing a beat I bridged my reins in one hand, wiped with jacket, got my reins back, and got over the jump. Decent jump too, if I recall!
              ~Living the life I imagined~

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              • #27
                it's called MULTITASKING!!
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                • #28
                  I'm having a real problem this week, though...I just shelled out close to $100 for a nice pair of Kyra K winter gloves (I finally got tired of searching for the perfect winter gloves, and bit the bullet...so far they seem to be worth it) and I'll be damned if I'm wiping my nose on those babies! I know one of these days I'll forget, though, and then I'll be really mad at myself.

                  I've peed in the stall, too, but the barn I'm at now actually has a heated lounge with a real bathroom, so I have no reason to anymore.
                  ~Nancy~

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                  • #29
                    They have "snot pads" on the coats they make for snowboarders. This is why God made cuffs.
                    We is what we is...our noses run, and it's gotta go SOMEWHERE.

                    I just hate it when it's running like crazy in a big clinic or something when you're doing a long course and you don't have TIME to take your hands off the reins.

                    SNNNNRRRRRK!! Blecch. I'd rather see someone wipe it, wherever, than hear them blow it in or out or otherwise relocate it loudly.

                    McV, you got the magic gloves! Yeah! The great thing about Kyra K's?? You CAN wipe on them--the leather is so soft your nose will thank you AND the way to clean them? Just wash your hands WITH the gloves on in some saddle soap, rinse, let dry. Perfect, soft, snot-free gloves in minutes!
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                    • #30
                      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">SNNNNRRRRRK!! Blecch. I'd rather see someone wipe it, wherever, than hear them blow it in or out or otherwise relocate it loudly. Dead Dead </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

                      WORD. There is nothing worse than listening to a long, loud nose blow, especially when it's accompanied by snarfling hacking noises. GROSS!

                      Having said that, I am all about the discreet swipe on the cuff.
                      "A canter is a cure for every evil." -Benjamin Disraeli

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                      • #31
                        OK, I am not a priss (really, I'm not) but this thread is grossing me out a little... but I'll share ...

                        Anybody have the barnyard blow mastered? Where you hold one nostril in while you blow the snot out of the other, and then do the other one?

                        That's what I usually do ....

                        Lovely conversation this is ...!!!

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                        • #32
                          I was rooting, unsuccessfully, in my coat for a kleenex the other night when my trainer yelled at me..."Don't you have a SLEEVE?!?!"
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                          • #33
                            Mmm, the tail hair flossing is a bit far for me...what if they had the squirts recently???

                            I am not talented enough to do the snotrocket (blowing your nose without a kleenex and holding one side closed), it isn't pretty...

                            I am guilty of the other things though

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                            • #34
                              <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by flyingchange:
                              Anybody have the barnyard blow mastered? Where you hold one nostril in while you blow the snot out of the other, and then do the other one? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>I don't quite have that one mastered, but most of member of the soccer team did when I was in high school, including our coach. We called them snot rockets. When playing in the midst of a downpour covered head to cleats in mud, it's really the only viable option.
                              "I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten." - Winnie the Pooh

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                              • #35
                                I just can't wait for Mistyblue to check in! Didn't she confess to toenail soup on the ergot thread?
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                                • #36
                                  flyingchange..Got the technique, still working on aim..very handy when one cuts you off while schooling!!
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                                  • #37
                                    I do it! I wash my clothes, so I figure its all good. I use more my forearm than the hand part.

                                    But I also pee in stalls (not here at school...). And change in them. And sleep in them. A stall is better than a bedroom.

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                                    • #38
                                      Totally admit to doing it (if I don't have kleenex I'm not hiking back to the barn to get some), but this is what really amused me..

                                      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Here in the hallowed halls of higher education, it's final exam season. Also flu/cold/crud season. There are few things more irritating that sitting and watching a class laboring over a final exam and listening to one kid, the kind who *really* misses Mom and doesn't know it, going sniff ... sniff ... sniff ... sniff ... snork ... sniff ... snork ... sniff ... ("you may go to the rest room and get some TP, thank you ...")
                                      </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                      During my first semester of college I had a crush on a guy in my political science class UNTIL I sat behind him during the final (in December) and had to listen to him sniffle and suck snot back for an hour and a half. SO GROSS!
                                      ~*Kate*~
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                                      • #39
                                        <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by jn4jenny:
                                        I not only admit the sleeve and glove offense, I admit this one too:

                                        In moments of extreme desperation, I've even rubbed my face on the horse's neck to get rid of it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                        That is absolutely hilarious! And I KNOW that you love your horse, too, 'cuz you're out there in the cold with him/her!

                                        I've used the inside of my collar, and couple of times I've used old leaves from the ground when I was outside. Then I give my shirt to my husband...just kidding.
                                        Banter whenever you want to banter....canter whenever you want to canter.

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                                        • #40
                                          I use my gloves. I refuse to buy expensive gloves for this reason. I don't hide it either. If I'm talking to someone or people are watching me ride and I need to wipe my nose- I do. At the barn, it's "legal". No one seems to notice.

                                          Not much of a stall pee-er; the bathroom is too close-by.

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