Post by Jen on Jan 15, 2010 22:04:48 GMT
are you ready???
right here goes!!!!!
get down to yards at about 7 this morning and i am given four horses to muck out which isnt really that many compared to some weeks only for C to come over and tell me that we hould be done early as we have so many people actually bothered to come in for once that we have people wandering round doing nothing - well they could have had at least one of my four really dirty horses!!!!!!!! or maybe even helped me with them.
had a crap riding lesson as the pony i have as my project horse (friend jades pony called shadow) is now going on DIY and not working livery at college so my project horse is changing again and im going to have to redo my whole assignment on it for the third time but i put my foot down and said there is no way i am doing the assignment again until i have managed to complete the whole four weeks with one horse that doesnt keep on flipping changing. anyway, shadow has changed completely this year at college - no bend, keeps napping, falls in/out depending on her mood and keeps drifting no matter how much you try and straighten her with your legs. this is mainly down to the quality of the riders that are put on her, ie they dont have to do the lateral work, or the correct bend, they do more nose to tail kind of work to work on the rider balance and their position so the horse are very 'ooh theres anaother horse, i must follow its bum' kinda thing which is a challenge for us "better" riders but also has its drawbacks because when you try and work on one thing (such as today i was working on correct bend) they wont concentrate properly with the other horses around (we work in open order at the mo) and do things such as try and follow another horse and then go hollow when you try and block this and then youre back to square one.
so after a rubbish riding lesson i went up to tescos to get some cigs, i went up to the counter and asked for what i wanted, the woman asked for ID so i handed it over, she took one look at it and refused to accept it saying that it wasnt me as i didnt have glasses on at the time and i do in the photo, well im sorry if i cant ride in my glasses a they dig in so i wear contacts. im sorry that she is such a jobsworth that she IDd and 80 odd year old lady for a lottery ticket. and i am more sorry about the fact that this same woman has refused my ID so many times that i made a complaint to her manager and her manger has said that she has to accept my ID. i was fuming. all i wanted was a cig to de stress after a frustrating riding lesson and she goes and winds me up like that, well i got back to college with steam pouring out of my ears, beth tentatively asked what was wrong and soon wished that she hadnt as the verbal downpour descended on her.
tonight on late night yards there was this dopey foundation degree student me and beth, it took us an hour to do one yard - usually it takes half that time to do both, in the time me and beth hayed the horses, filled and soaked the wet hays this dopey thing filled two, yes two waterbuckets. claiming she had a bad back - so why the hell offer to do the waters then?
? for the next 10 minutes or so i stormed around with a face like thunder doing all the waters myself while dopey just stood there and watched, eventually i snapped at her something along the lines of "do you think i am a circus act or something??" and made her do some waters bad back or not, i have a really sore elbow from carrying really heavy water buckets and a stiff should from the same yet i still coped. i had no choice in the matter. i wouldnt have minded doing the waters as much if she had gone and done something else that vaguely resembled usefull, M (yard staff) said to me i looked like i was on a mission and i just said that i was p***** off more like, and still this dopey girl just stood there doing sweet f/a. after all of that palaver all i wanted was a cig except i didnt have any because of the stupid woman in tescos.
so i go up to tesco again and the same woman IDs me again, doesnt even look at it and says "yeah thats fine love".
so yes i am rather flipping anoyed right now.
ben and jerrys for reaching the end!!!!
right here goes!!!!!
get down to yards at about 7 this morning and i am given four horses to muck out which isnt really that many compared to some weeks only for C to come over and tell me that we hould be done early as we have so many people actually bothered to come in for once that we have people wandering round doing nothing - well they could have had at least one of my four really dirty horses!!!!!!!! or maybe even helped me with them.
had a crap riding lesson as the pony i have as my project horse (friend jades pony called shadow) is now going on DIY and not working livery at college so my project horse is changing again and im going to have to redo my whole assignment on it for the third time but i put my foot down and said there is no way i am doing the assignment again until i have managed to complete the whole four weeks with one horse that doesnt keep on flipping changing. anyway, shadow has changed completely this year at college - no bend, keeps napping, falls in/out depending on her mood and keeps drifting no matter how much you try and straighten her with your legs. this is mainly down to the quality of the riders that are put on her, ie they dont have to do the lateral work, or the correct bend, they do more nose to tail kind of work to work on the rider balance and their position so the horse are very 'ooh theres anaother horse, i must follow its bum' kinda thing which is a challenge for us "better" riders but also has its drawbacks because when you try and work on one thing (such as today i was working on correct bend) they wont concentrate properly with the other horses around (we work in open order at the mo) and do things such as try and follow another horse and then go hollow when you try and block this and then youre back to square one.
so after a rubbish riding lesson i went up to tescos to get some cigs, i went up to the counter and asked for what i wanted, the woman asked for ID so i handed it over, she took one look at it and refused to accept it saying that it wasnt me as i didnt have glasses on at the time and i do in the photo, well im sorry if i cant ride in my glasses a they dig in so i wear contacts. im sorry that she is such a jobsworth that she IDd and 80 odd year old lady for a lottery ticket. and i am more sorry about the fact that this same woman has refused my ID so many times that i made a complaint to her manager and her manger has said that she has to accept my ID. i was fuming. all i wanted was a cig to de stress after a frustrating riding lesson and she goes and winds me up like that, well i got back to college with steam pouring out of my ears, beth tentatively asked what was wrong and soon wished that she hadnt as the verbal downpour descended on her.
tonight on late night yards there was this dopey foundation degree student me and beth, it took us an hour to do one yard - usually it takes half that time to do both, in the time me and beth hayed the horses, filled and soaked the wet hays this dopey thing filled two, yes two waterbuckets. claiming she had a bad back - so why the hell offer to do the waters then?
? for the next 10 minutes or so i stormed around with a face like thunder doing all the waters myself while dopey just stood there and watched, eventually i snapped at her something along the lines of "do you think i am a circus act or something??" and made her do some waters bad back or not, i have a really sore elbow from carrying really heavy water buckets and a stiff should from the same yet i still coped. i had no choice in the matter. i wouldnt have minded doing the waters as much if she had gone and done something else that vaguely resembled usefull, M (yard staff) said to me i looked like i was on a mission and i just said that i was p***** off more like, and still this dopey girl just stood there doing sweet f/a. after all of that palaver all i wanted was a cig except i didnt have any because of the stupid woman in tescos.so i go up to tesco again and the same woman IDs me again, doesnt even look at it and says "yeah thats fine love".
so yes i am rather flipping anoyed right now.
ben and jerrys for reaching the end!!!!
