Idiots
I hate idiots. Seriously. Especially when you have to deal with an idiot while they are riding mare that hates geldings and you are riding a gelding that hates mares. It's already asking for trouble to put them together. Let's not ask for more by putting an idiot on the bitchy mare.
We had a mock show for the horse show this evening, I was on Chico, Kelly was on Ellie (We're also going to be in the same class for ag day). So we warmed up and she kept getting Ellie near Chico. So I kept cutting across the ring or doing a circle. And she seemed to magically appear out of nowhere again! Then we did our trot and canter and all that jazz. At one point I was asking for a trot from Chico and he burst out with a canter. And he's a lazy horse. But he was so pissed because a MARE was near him. Not only that, but the mare was in heat and pissy as it was. Then when Sheila got on Ellie, she was raging mad. And Sheila came back in to adjust her stirrups and asked me to hold the reins for her. And idiot Kelly kept bothering the poor mare. Oh! And we need to go back to the beginning of her idiocy: tacking up. Kelly starts saying that if she gets the bridle on first, Ellie normally doesn't bite. Ummm, Ellie doesn't bite. She just threatens to. And there's a reason we put the saddle on and then the briddle: so they don't eat with the bit in their mouth. Because then it just gets nasty. She then walks away, Ellie fully tacked up, leaves the stall door open, and asks me to watch her while she gets her helmit. PS I'm at that moment holding Chico, fully tacked up, across the aisle. So when Ellie starts to walk out of her stall, I have to ask someone to grab her who then asks why in the world Ellie was left like that in the first place. Good question. Sheila commented later the the girth was loose and the saddle slightly too far back on Ellie when she had mounted her. I guess it's a good thing for Kelly that Ellie's going to be handed to her all tacked up. Correctly. But I'm going to have to keep my eyes open during my class.
Oh, and Katy made us walk up and down hills fifty million times at our mock show. My back hurts now. And she pissed of Link by touching his dock, he HATES when I do that.