kaiser715
Doing hard time
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2006
- Location
- 7, Pocket, NC
I got to thinking about this last Sunday. We were leaving the Badin Lake campground, going home, and on the way to the paved road, ran into some of our group coming back from the trails. I had my trail rig on the trailer, there were two rigs that we met, and there were four of us were standing there on the gravel road talking.
Well, it just so happened that we were at a horse trail crossing, and down the trail came a large group of horse people. They were like 10 feet from where we were standing, maybe 10 of them altogether... Being friendly and outgoing sorts, we said hello to the first pair coming across the road. Blank stares. Another horse rider comes. We say hello. He turns away, won't even look at us. Ten people crossed the road right at us...we said hello, howdy, wassup, or waved to every last one of them. ZERO response. Now, we aren't kids -- all 4 of us (plus a couple of wimmen sitting in the trucks) are mid-40's, so it wasn't an anti-'stoopid college kid with a jeep' thing.
I know several horse people that work for some of my clients, and some of them ride at UNF too...wonder if they'd speak to me if we met at a crossing, or would they give me the shit-eye too?
Last year...I was driving down the road, after you get on the paved section headed to Eldorado. Lady (?) on a horse started yelling at me and cussing me. G-D Jeeps, etc...(she was blessing me out for speeding, but I managed to come to a complete and safe stop maybe 30' beyond the trail crossing, once she started yelling (at first I thought she maybe had an emergency of some sort)). They had already crossed the road, she was last in line. I was only running about 10psi, so wasn't doing more than about 25mph. I just stopped in the road and stared at her, and couldn't help but laugh right in her face as she ranted on.
Anyway, don't turn this into a horse-people bashing thread. But what is going thru their heads??? Why can't we get along? Anybody have similar experiences??
I look at horse people the same as lowriders, etc.... Let other folks do their thing (even if it is stupid) and let them be. If everybody did the same thing...then the trails would be mighty crowded.
Well, it just so happened that we were at a horse trail crossing, and down the trail came a large group of horse people. They were like 10 feet from where we were standing, maybe 10 of them altogether... Being friendly and outgoing sorts, we said hello to the first pair coming across the road. Blank stares. Another horse rider comes. We say hello. He turns away, won't even look at us. Ten people crossed the road right at us...we said hello, howdy, wassup, or waved to every last one of them. ZERO response. Now, we aren't kids -- all 4 of us (plus a couple of wimmen sitting in the trucks) are mid-40's, so it wasn't an anti-'stoopid college kid with a jeep' thing.
I know several horse people that work for some of my clients, and some of them ride at UNF too...wonder if they'd speak to me if we met at a crossing, or would they give me the shit-eye too?
Last year...I was driving down the road, after you get on the paved section headed to Eldorado. Lady (?) on a horse started yelling at me and cussing me. G-D Jeeps, etc...(she was blessing me out for speeding, but I managed to come to a complete and safe stop maybe 30' beyond the trail crossing, once she started yelling (at first I thought she maybe had an emergency of some sort)). They had already crossed the road, she was last in line. I was only running about 10psi, so wasn't doing more than about 25mph. I just stopped in the road and stared at her, and couldn't help but laugh right in her face as she ranted on.
Anyway, don't turn this into a horse-people bashing thread. But what is going thru their heads??? Why can't we get along? Anybody have similar experiences??
I look at horse people the same as lowriders, etc.... Let other folks do their thing (even if it is stupid) and let them be. If everybody did the same thing...then the trails would be mighty crowded.
