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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] re: Rude Rider - Ericka Nelsonoh, and one more thing....the one time i was really rude on the trail, (that i'm aware of anyway) was a time i was scarred s***less on a steep hill side switch back trail and the people in front of me were chatting as if i had nothing to be afraid of. i will always regret my offensive exclamation, as i'm sure those people glare at me at all rides now. but, what i'm trying to get across here is what some of you realize already. you really don't know what the rude person is going through right at that moment. sometimes fear is taking over their usually otherwise mild manners. thanks in advance for being forgiving if you meet me on a scarry trail. ericka ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Durgin" <ladurgin@xxxxxxx> To: <howard9732@xxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 7:08 AM Subject: RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] re: Rude Rider Well, what you really do is just hang out with them. Ride with them for awile, pretend they're your new buddies, your new pals. Laugh too loudly and too often, tell a few off color, really bad jokes, start telling them about your sister's outrageous sex life with the basketball team when she was in college, in detail, discuss politics (I'm a Communist), religion (I think we should all return to Paganism, it makes things so much simpler)Yeah, then you could just eat your enemies ;0)My friend used to get all blown up and bent out of shape at how rude people were out on trail...especially those who were just walking there horses while we where "training" on trail. Usually comments range from..."Why don't you slow down!" "You can't ride there!" "Watch it!" "Get out of my way" "You shouldn't canter on trail!" "Stop running (when we were trotting)" and it goes on with other nasty comments to just plain dirty looks, etc. Anyway, I take a bit of a different approach and act more concerned for the person and make sure they have complete control of their horse and just straight out ask them if they are going to be okay out here in the woods...on trail...outside of the arena. I'm getting really tired of people who expect you to walk or trot slower because they have no control of their own horses. No, none of us run past others or run up on them. We ask if we can pass and when we get by, ask if we can trot away. I'm talking about being 100 yards from someone at a canter, slow down and approach at an easy trot, then a walk to go by. My point to this is that I should NOT have to ride my horse for other people. If they truly feel that my canter or trot 100 yards away from them is causing their horse to be out of control, then I'm sorry but they need to go back to the barn and practice some control. I'm never rude...just concerned...and to a point "shaming" them for how they act towards us. I'm just getting tired of it. Stacy John Lyons says a Trail Horse has to be better trained than an arena horse--"If you don't have control where you ride , don't ride there....."Ride where you can (safely), not where you can't".I rode with some day riders once and they scared the doo do out of me. I thought at the time my horse had problems---and he was much better behaved than those horses and safer ,a dnhe has had his moments.--------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=_________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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