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  • #21
    Originally posted by BuddyRoo View Post
    I like to call these people "Obliviots"

    (and no, i didn't come up with that on my own--Mike Straka did I believe)

    Completely oblivious idiot who do things that just make the rest of us scratch our head or scream.

    Anyway....they're everywhere. The ones that annoy me most often are grocery store obliviots.

    For a quick laugh about obliviots.... http://forums.horsecity.com/index.ph...4&showentry=14
    OMG, that was great!!! But then I read "On Parking Lots and Dogs" and now I can't stop smiling!! Thanks for the entertaining read.
    A Merrick N Dream Farm
    Proud Member of "Someone Special to me serves in the Military" Clique

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    • #22
      You're a very lucky lady. Shortly after that was written, I was in YOUR neck of the woods navigating about. LOL

      Lucky you didn't get stopped behind me!
      A good horseman doesn't have to tell anyone...the horse already knows.

      Might be a reason, never an excuse...

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      • #23
        Oh lord. You can't be any worse than some of the teen drivers out there. I'm hope you've got the hang of having a manual tranny now. My first car as a teen was a stick and was the only girl in my class that knew how to drive one. Nobody ever wanted to borrow it cause they couldn't drive it. I'm the master of a stick shift.

        What kind of dog? All I know is he's big and shark-like w/ his appetite.
        A Merrick N Dream Farm
        Proud Member of "Someone Special to me serves in the Military" Clique

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        • #24
          Lab. 95 lbs and 27 in at the shoulder. Big tall eat-anything lab.

          I was back home for Christmas. I drove through a terrible blizzard to get there and have never been more thankful for 4WD.

          I have the hang of it now...but I didn't even drive the vehicle off the lot. Had a friend do it and give me a lesson in a parking lot. LOL



          Anyway...back to your regularly scheduled smack down!
          A good horseman doesn't have to tell anyone...the horse already knows.

          Might be a reason, never an excuse...

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          • #25
            Cool. I miss my Lab.

            Oh yes, our weather was lovely during that time and many times again since. Glad the new car worked out for ya then.

            LOL, I had the lessons when I had my permit in the school parking lot BEFORE the car was mine.

            Yes, sorry to hijack y'all.
            A Merrick N Dream Farm
            Proud Member of "Someone Special to me serves in the Military" Clique

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            • #26
              Our barn has a rule that if there are two or more people riding in the covered arena, you may not lunge unless they give you permission to do so. Frankly, I always ask even if there's just one person, because some horses just get upset when another horse is lungeing. Whatever.

              So I'm riding one evening, and this gal who gave "lessons" (alternating with her students on a perpetunal 20m circle, effectively cutting off one end of a slightly smaller than large dressage arena sized arena or them being wildly out of control) comes in. I'm riding, my friend is riding her horse. So-called instructor marches into the ring with her 17 hand wild 4 year old on the end of a lunge. I stopped my horse blocking her entry into the ring and said, you'll have to wait until we're through riding. Barn rules. It will probably be about 30 mins. She blustered and went to the BOs (they live on property) and they backed me up. Within about 15 minutes, my friend got off, but I was still riding. Okay, one horse in arena, she can lunge. In she comes, horse blows up wildly but fortunately my guy is pretty unflappable. I stick to the other 2/3rds of the arena. I'm trotting down the log side in my remaining portion of the arena, and suddenly the 17 hand four year old is running up my horse's a$$. My guy scooted, but did not buck or shy. I looked at her indignantly. Her response, "I didn't SEE you." Uh-huh- really hard to see a bright chestnut Appaloosa with a withers to tail blanket. What a "rhymes with rich."

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              • #27
                Originally posted by ybiaw View Post
                Praise be to George.
                Amen!

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                • #28
                  Ya know when I read stuff like this ....

                  Ya know when I read stuff like this .... I am glad none of the people involved are my boarders!!!!!!!!
                  "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there"

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                  • #29
                    Originally posted by ybiaw View Post
                    There's this chick (we'll call her "Lady" for argument's sake) at my barn. She's owned her horse since he was a weanling. He is now about 7 years old. He's spoiled rotten, and not in the good way.

                    She. Is. A. Nincompoop. Totally clueless. But until last night, I didn't realize exactly HOW clueless she is.

                    So yesterday, I'm riding my fidgety gelding who is just coming back to work after a loooooong rehab from a badly bowed tendon. For some strange reason, it was SUPER crowded in the arena at 7pm on a Thursday. 2 Jumping lessons going on, and a bunch of other people just hacking, including this lady.

                    So a smallish (maybe 5) group of us are standing in the middle of one of the ends of the arena, staying out of the way of the girls who are jumping and she comes BARRELING around the corner and cuts it SO BADLY that her horse is literally 1ft away from my horse's rear end. My horse does a little dance (I nearly soil myself), and I say to her (trying to be nice...really biting my tongue to keep from just going OFF on her) "Hey Lady? Please try not to get so close behind my horse, he's a little flighty about horses running up on him." She laughs and says "Hahaha....yeah....he (speaking of her own horse) cuts his corners really bad!"



                    Anyway, then she goes about her merry business, blah blah blah, gets done riding, hops off.....TAKES HER BRIDLE OFF HER HORSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ARENA (no, she did not have a halter nearby). Now, mind you, there are still a BUNCH of horses in the arena, including these 2 jumping lessons going on. Luckily, horse is apparently used to her shenanigans and didn't decide to make a break for it (I would have). THEN, after she untacks him in the aisle, she brings him BACK into the arena, right smack into the MIDDLE of this group of about 4 or 5 horses (not to mention the others who were still on the rail working, and the TWO. JUMPING. LESSONS. THAT. WERE. GOING. ON.) and lets her horse LAY DOWN and ROLL. Right in the middle of the arena. Right in the middle of a group of horses with riders on them. While there are lessons going on!

                    Now, I'm not against people letting their horse roll the itchies out in the arena. But that's if there are only a couple people in the ring, no lessons going on, and if the person who wants to let their horse roll says "Hey, do you guys mind if I let Poopsie Precious roll a little bit? He's itchy."

                    So here's her horse, rolling one side to the other, hooves flailing, about 2 feet away from my horse, who has an expression on his face like "Ma? WTF?"

                    Seriously, people. This is a basic ring etiquette issue. WTF!
                    get all the bods together that were riding that day and go as a group to the b/o
                    and raise your concerns this is not only stupid but down right dangerous not for you to tell her but for the b/o to as it will be her libility insurance that has to pay out for accidents on the premises

                    ask for a new rule no lunging whilse ridden work in the areana
                    and no horses to be let off at all times in the areana unless asked permission of the b/o

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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by Guin View Post
                      And the two "trainers" teaching the jumping lessons did....NOTHING? If my kid was in one of those lessons, I'd yank her off the horse and not come back, ever. Talk about a safety disaster waiting to happen!
                      exactly

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                      • #31
                        If i had been one of the trainers giving a lesson ,I most certainly would have had something to say. I would have told her this was not allowed when lessons were going on,and would have marched myself over to the B.O. as soon as I was done ,or called them on the phone asap to make sure that rule was communicated to the twit by the Powers That Be. Providing ,of course that my head didn't explode first.

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                        • #32
                          There's a reason I'm know as the barn bitch - I have no qualms about screaming at anyone doing crap like that. Boarders, visitors, pony clubbers or their parents, trainers - no one is immune if they're being stupid or inconsiderate or breaking rules.
                          suze
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                          • #33
                            Wow. If I ever thought of leaving my barn for fancier facilities, I'll think of your story (I usually have the indoor to myself). I have to wonder if this lady is as selfish/foolish/ignorant in other areas of her life...

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                            • #34
                              Originally posted by ybiaw View Post
                              For some strange reason, it was SUPER crowded in the arena at 7pm on a Thursday. 2 Jumping lessons going on, and a bunch of other people just hacking, including this lady.

                              So a smallish (maybe 5) group of us are standing in the middle of one of the ends of the arena, staying out of the way of the girls who are jumping

                              Seriously, people. This is a basic ring etiquette issue. WTF!

                              I don't know how big your arena could possibly be, but a group of 5 horses just standing around would be a huge irritation to most people who are trying to ride. Why would you all be standing in the ring taking up that space when so much is going on?
                              Jigga:
                              Why must you chastise my brilliant idea with facts and logic? **picks up toys (and wine) and goes home**

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                              • #35
                                Originally posted by saultgirl View Post
                                I don't know how big your arena could possibly be, but a group of 5 horses just standing around would be a huge irritation to most people who are trying to ride. Why would you all be standing in the ring taking up that space when so much is going on?
                                exactly why I am glad none of the people involved board at my farm - they would drive me up a TREE!
                                "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there"

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                                • #36
                                  When my mare was just starting out under saddle I was taking a flat lesson in an arena with one other rider and a Parelli-type instructor was teaching a group doing groundwork. At the end of the lesson she had them all take off their bridles and follow their owners out of the arena to their stalls. I'm on my green young TB and couldn't help feel it was a bit of a risk if they hadn't all been so keen to get to their suppers. She later had a 'cease and desist' letter from Parelli because she was using his name to advertise herself as an instructor. Geesh.
                                  Proud member of People Who Hate to Kill Wildlife clique

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                                  • #37
                                    Originally posted by ybiaw View Post
                                    Not that I was aware of. However, I was really busy staring with my jaw dropped in astonishment to pay attention to if the trainer said anything to her.
                                    Uh, erm, most of the poeple I know would have exploded so loud that you DARN SURE would ahve known about it!

                                    Thoughtless & rude. What a RARE combo that is, huh!
                                    “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Peter Drucker

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                                    • #38
                                      Originally posted by saultgirl View Post
                                      I don't know how big your arena could possibly be, but a group of 5 horses just standing around would be a huge irritation to most people who are trying to ride. Why would you all be standing in the ring taking up that space when so much is going on?
                                      Ummm...standing out of the way while others are jumping a course in a lesson is standard in a crowded ring, especially if they are either not so swift beginners working over crossrails or tiny fences or doing anything 3' and up. Bad barn management is bad barn management in any barn, plain or fancy schmantzy and this crap with this lady and her ill behaved self trained horse would simply not be tolerated and any well managed barn.
                                      When opportunity knocks it's wearing overalls and looks like work.

                                      The horse world. Two people. Three opinions.

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                                      • #39
                                        Well, I guess you can put a positive spin on it and look at it as a training opportunity for your horse.

                                        Instead of de-spooking you get to de-yahoo...

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                                        • #40
                                          Originally posted by BuddyRoo View Post
                                          I am so blessed. I am so blessed. I am so blessed. I am so blessed.

                                          That's all I can think of when I read stuff like this!
                                          Me too! So many times when I read posts on this and other boards, all I can think is "OMG, I love my barn! I love my trainer! I love my fellow boarders! I AM SO LUCKY!!!"

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