Conversation with my horse...

[glenatron]

I posted this elsewhere on a thread of conversations people have had with their horses but it made me smile so I thought I'd share it here also.

This was more or less the conversation we had on Saturday. It was our first solo hack in the last few months on account of it's fun to go out for rides with Small and sleepsy_mouse:

Me: Zorro, I know we left Small behind and we're out alone but I'm sure you can walk faster than this.
Zorro: I can walk faster if we go the other way.
Me: We're not going that way, though, are we?
Zorro: We could be, look I can just whip round and...
Me:... and continue whipping round until you're back facing the way we're going.
Zorro: I have backup!
Me: That's nice, go forward.
Zorro: I can buck!
Me: That's nice, go forward.
Zorro: ...
Zorro: So. going forward then.
Me: Yes, how about it?

five minutes later

Zorro: This is the invisible wall!
Me: Why have you stopped?
Zorro: The invisible wall!
Me: I can't see anything.
Zorro: No, that's cos it's invisible, we'd better go home now!
Me: Or go on?
Zorro: But there is a wall!!!
Me: Alright, I'll get off and push.
Zorro: That's good- you can go through the wall first.
Me: So what is this wall made of?
Zorro: Sinister doom and certain death and lions!
Me: That's funny because it looks to me like it's around where this field of cows starts. Is it because of the smell of cows, Zorro?
Zorro: No it's lions! And bears!
Me: Were they Mooing bears? Lions with horns?
Zorro: ...

Zorro: hold on! I know this place! This is the half-way mark!
Me: So if I asked you for a gentle trot now...
Zorro: RAMPAGE!!!!!
Me: Row down, lunky.
Zorro: BUCKING!!!
Me: Bend bend bend bend bend
Zorro: Wait, you want me to walk?
Me: Yes please, Zorro.
Zorro: BUCKING! INTO A PUDDLE! SPLASHING!
Me: Bendbendbendbend
Zorro: I can do sideways! Check out me doing sideways!
Me: Thanks Zorro, can you do walking?
Zorro: No.

Comments

[baddynono.livejournal.com]

I love that :o)

[wldhrsjen3.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO. :D

[harnessphoto.livejournal.com]

I died laughing. Ozzy loves to do Sideways.

[jambat.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha

thats the funnyist thing i have read in a long time

i remember one of my ponys doing that every time...if we went out alone or in company...if he was in the lead of the ride god help you :D

good luck with that...it will improve...hopefully?

[skye-ds.livejournal.com]

O.M.G!!! I have had that EXACT conversation, word for word, minus the bucking, because she's too lazy, with my mare Mirage.

*is rolling on the floor laughing, in the middle of a Chinese restaurant, in Siloam Springs Arkansas, 500 miles from home, much to the consternation of two waitresses.*

[z111.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I think Zorro needs to write a book!

[gnapp.livejournal.com]

Zorro is a very clever horse. What if he had not seen the invisible wall and just walked straight into it? You would have been eaten by the Mooing Bears!

Horses... :-)

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

When I come back from Texas I am pretty sure that I will have improved, which will help Zorro to feel braver. Ultimately we just need to practice really.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Fortunately the bucking is more like registering a protest than actually trying to be shot of me...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I don't think I'd come out of it looking very good...

[evil-c.livejournal.com]

That did make me laugh! The second paragraph is pretty much a discussion I have with Lizzie every now and then too so I'm especially fond of that paragraph :)

[spoon-doom.livejournal.com]

Damned talking horses.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

They do have a lot to say for themselves.

[z111.livejournal.com]

Because his hooves can't type?

[horsearcher.livejournal.com]

Hee! I have had similar conversations with horses. :)

[penella22.livejournal.com]

thirded! such opinions...

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

XD I love your conversations with the horses. Do post more! :P

[woodbrook.livejournal.com]

lol!!! wow now I want a horse!

[woodbrook.livejournal.com]

I'd also like to add - I have just realised u are a lrper and u live in guildford! And I live in Godalming (well, Farncombe). Do you fancy meeting up? I suspect we have various LT people in common.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Certainly, although I'm about to go off to Texas for a month learning to train horses, but I'm sure I've seen your name around my friends list so we almost certainly know many people. Indeed, we've probably been introduced.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

In fact we have met, a year or so back at Clare's house where we were surprised that we were both from this corner of Surrey.