I Never Thought I Would Say That!
Woman in the Middle | November 10, 2013I live in a city where folks own horses. Not me. But other folks. My city also still has two lane country roads in many places. Yes, there are horses and country roads in So Cal!I Recently I was driving on one of those country roads and up ahead of me was a horse and rider on the dirt shoulder of the road. They were riding next to a fence and behind the fence were a bunch of dogs, all of whom were very excited and barking because of the horse.
The horse did not like this one bit and was dancing around, sometimes swinging its hind quarters out into the street. I slowed down and finally stopped as I did not want to end up hitting the horse. The rider was having trouble controlling the horse. One of the reason he was having trouble with control is he had only one hand on the reigns. That was when I began to get frustrated. I finally yelled something I never expected to yell in my life:
“Hang up and ride your horse!”
Yep, the rider was on his cell phone!
By the way, I was yelling in my car with the windows up. The horse rider never heard me. Just expressing frustration to myself. The rider had enough problems with the barking dogs, I wasn’t going to add to it! The rider finally hung up and got both hands on the reigns. And I finally got to get moving again.
Some people!
I often do that to people in cars. Have yet to see a rider on the phone! But as a former rider, thank you for not honking.
I may not be a horse person but I have been around them by whole life. I would NEVER honk at a horse and rider!
Hahahaha! Now that is funny. It’s a good thing the rider wasn’t texting!