horse people

I saw this list of items on another website, it struck me funny. All of them apply, and what’s the funniest is that 18 months ago, NONE of them would have applied!

You Know You’re a Horse Person When:

• You get to the checkout at the grocery and the only things you're buying are 5 gallons of corn oil, a gallon of vinegar and dish soap (to make fly spray).

• The photo Christmas cards feature the horses.

• Your car is the only one in the company parking lot that has an inch of dust INSIDE and when you open the door, a swarm of flies emerge.

• You get a little whiff of manure smell and breathe deeper to get the full impact. That goes double for the smell of leather.

• Suppertime is generally at 8PM, and everyone has been home since before 5.

• You RUSH to the front window to watch the horses run & buck in the pasture, even if you're in the middle of a meal. Good, clean fun!

• The concept of sleeping in on the weekends has long since faded from your memory.

• You know more about equine nutrition than human nutrition and it shows

• You cannot imagine why anyone would think it kinky to own whips

• You show up in city clothes dressed for appointments and when you get there people reach over the breakfast table to pick alfalfa out of your hair.

• You dress like a lawyer on weekdays and someone who needs a lawyer on your days off

• No one wants to ride in your car because they'll get sweet feed and hay in their socks and purses...that's ok because then you'd have to rearrange all the tack to make room for them, anyway!

• You’ve considered moving into the barn, since it is cleaner than the house.

• You drive up in the yard, get out of the car and inhale the perfume of the manure pile.

• You talk to the horses like they were kids.

• You leave work feeling stiff, tense, with a stomach- or headache, and all those feelings disappear the minute you get home and see the horses waiting by the fence for you.