Re: Attitudes

["spencer" <spencer@inu.net>]

It seems to me that the world has been getting less and less 'polite'.  But
then my mother was from England and we were taught to polite and be a good
sport.  The few rides I have done in TX, I have not seen what has been
described in the post about 'bad manners'.  Good reason to stay here, I
guess.  But I have been wondering in bad manners has become the 'norm' and
thus is to be expected.  Can't recall any problems near what has been
described.  In fact, I have enjoyed meeting the down to earth people
involved in Endurance compared with the 'snobs' in other 'show activities' 
ie dressage and Arab shows(now there is a place to waste good money on
horses that your just have to wonder 'why did they place that on?'
Mary Ann 
TX

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From: Sue Norris <sue@raton.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: Attitudes
Date: Monday, March 30, 1998 1:32 AM

This is in reply to the post from Ken in the West Region. THANK YOU, THANK
YOU, THANK YOU, for saying what I have been wanting to say, but have been
holding back.  The "chip on the shoulder" analogy is exactly what all this
complaining is coming off as. Let's face it, there are no free rides in
life, nothing is perfect, people from all walks of life can, and will be
rude, sometimes things don't always go the way we would like them to,
sometimes life is a bowl of cherries, and sometimes it is a bucket of
horse****, so what, that's how life is sometimes, so do the best YOU can as
a person, and DEAL WITH IT!!! I also have never seen LD riders being
treated
as a lower life form, although I am sure everbody in this game has been
stepped on at one time or another in some large or miniscule degree, but
like I said, there are always going to be a certain number of jerks. But in
my experience, doing both LD and endurance rides, the nice people FAR out
number the inconsiderate. 
 

          Anyway, I don't want to repeat everything that Ken said so
wonderfully, I just wanted to thank him for telling it like it is. 

  
                 Another unwritten rule: This is not a sport for whiners!!

                
Sue Norris-Romero
Raton, N.M.