I routinely sneak into the local laundromat at 730 am to wash horse blankets.
Iwas drinking out of our hose one day after a bike ride and my DH said “You can take the girl out of the country…but you cant take the country out of the girl” Guess I’m not the only one!
I play the lottery every week in the sincere hope that I will win so I can spend whatever I damn well want on horses.
I’ve done a lot of these, too! The whole saddle pad addiction, not washing hands (I’m rarely sick BTW), peeing wherever is convenient…:lol:
My favorite bed blanket is a Rambo cooler that belonged to my first horse.
I routinely wear my current horse’s Rambo cooler when I’m checking cattle on the ATV on cold mornings. Or one of his quarter sheets.
Vetrolin detangler works well for my thick hair when it’s long.
I used to get salad or soup from Panera for lunch and save the whole grain bread for my favorite school horses. My TB is apparently too good for Panera.
When I was really little and horseless, my mother made me a My Little Pony costume for Halloween. Which I proceeded to wear regularly until I out grew it, upon which she made me a sweatshirt with a horse head applique and a yarn mane. I’d wear said accoutrements while riding my stick horse up and down the aisles in the grocery store and Kmart. Complete with whinnying and clucking. <-----I have the best mom ever, BTW.
I was totally convinced until I was about 4 or 5 that I’d grow up to be an actual horse. It was a sad day when my dad told me the truth, and nearly 30 years later I’m not 100% sure I’ve forgiven him. :lol:
No one was at the barn so I discretely used the out in the open wash rack to clean up before heading to the office. I am happy it is well set back from the road.
Edit - open wash rack means that it is not in a building, but out in the open, but away from the road and far enough from the barn for me to not scare the horses.
And since this is a confessional, I once cooled, bathed and groomed a horse while on a conference call with clients. I had asked if the call could be at a different time as I had a conflict, but they said no. So I made some schedule adjustments.
I couldn’t find my lip balm while at the barn one day. I did, however, find my container of Vaseline that I use for lubricating thermometers. I made sure to dig out a clean-ish area of Vaseline to apply to my lips.
Also, I’ve only recently started wearing rubber gloves for sheath cleaning. More so because scrubbing my hands/arms takes too long. It really doesn’t gross me out…but maybe it should. (LOL, I just saw the above post that’s related to this! I’m glad I’m not the only one).
You mean we’re not supposed to drink from a barn hose 
I guess that means picking up stray (fresh) poop balls barehanded is verboten too?
I have ridden barefoot when I left my paddock boots in the house and didn’t want to ride in my bulky barn boots that would stick in the irons.
When it is particularly hot I will do last barn check - after dark, around 9-10P -in whatever is passing for jammies - usually a skimpy tank top & boxer shorts.
Also happens early Summer mornings.
This may have scared the garbage collectors and/or mailmen :uhoh:
I have no qualms about eating a sandwich after cleaning stalls without washing my hands, but god help me if I’m not tripping over myself to wash my hands when I get home from a shopping trip to Walmart (ick ick ICK!).
I’ve taken a shower in the wash rack. I regularly wash my hair at the barn, use my soaked shirt to wash my body, put on my work shirt and fresh deodorant and go to work (or course I work at a hardware store, so it’s not that bad.)
I thought everyone drank out of the barn hose and peed in stalls when necessary…
When I had horses at home I did night check naked more than once.
The one time I drank out of my horse’s bucket (at a show) I got food poisoning really, really badly. Not sure if it was drinking out of the bucket or the chicken from the free show bar-b-que.
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I have no qualms about eating a sandwich after cleaning stalls without washing my hands, but god help me if I’m not tripping over myself to wash my hands when I get home from a shopping trip to Walmart (ick ick ICK!).[/QUOTE]
Hmmm. I guess it depends on where you live, but one go round with Giardia will cure you of that habit… (it’s a bit of an issue around here, I discovered.)
We just went through Severe Tropical Cyclone Ita here, and I was feeling bad for the horses during the worst bit of weather, so I braved the wind and brought the horses on the porch (they’d be in the way in the kitchen!) for the duration. I now have foal-nose-prints all over the windows, and she learned how to open the screen door and poke her head in the house during her visit. Not too bad a way to spend a cyclone!
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My vet was fussing around looking for gloves for her next app’t, a sheath clean, and I reminded her that all known bad-asses use their bare hands for Picking Beans. :lol:[/QUOTE]
I’ve totally done this. No matter how hard I try, I can’t get the Bean whilst wearing gloves.
Oddly enough, in the non-horsey parts of my life I’m a total germophobe, having been traumatized by taking Pathogenic Microbiology as an undergrad.
Now, in the horsey pasts of my life, I’m the total opposite. Last week, I was mucking the paddock, stopped to drink a Diet Coke. I took the lid off the McDonald’s cup, fished out some ice cubes a couple of times with my bare hands to give to Vee, then put the lid back on and happily finished my soda.
I would happily sleep in one of my horse-hair-and-barn-dust laden t-shirts if my husband wouldn’t freak out about it.
I feel so much more saner after reading through this thread. Or…maybe it is true what they say about horse people being crazy. The first one sounds better though… 
People don’t normally drink out of hoses?
Doing a bit of spring cleaning at home and thought of a few more…
I don’t put my stuff through the second rinse cycle. His stuff? Of COURSE! I don’t want him to have any irritation from the detergent!
His polos are perfectly wrapped. My socks are, well, just aren’t.
My riding clothes have their own section in the closet and aren’t shoved up against each other. My dry cleaned shirts/suits/etc.? Eh, what does a wrinkle or two matter.
I’ve never polished my own leather shoes. My riding boots? All the time.
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ETA: I finished reading this post, and when I got to ChocoMare’s saddle pad confession, I immediately went and hunted down the striped pad and bought it. My dark bay will look smashing in it![/QUOTE]
So glad to play a wee Enabling part in your saddle pad hoard. I have a bay too (Clyde-X) and it’ll be perfecto on her too! 
We always drank from the hose! Shared any and all food with horse. As a horse-crazy kid I only asked for horse items for birthdays/Christmas presents even though I didn’t have a horse. There was an old wine barrel in the yard I turned on its side and would brush it and ride it as if it was a real horse.
When driving in the car I count imaginary strides to lines on the road as if they were jumps.
I’ve ridden bareback in my bathing suit in a torrential downpour, just 'cause we could.
I had my tampon fall out while jumping. a course. at a show. Finished the round and pinned! (TMI?)
Great thread!!!:winkgrin:
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People don’t normally drink out of hoses? [/QUOTE]
Most hoses have a lot of chemicals in them. I searched hard to find a kink proof potable hose. Because of this many people don’t drink from hoses.
The irony in that is that those same hoses are used for watering horses and most people do drink out of them. But I was always told not too and as an adult saw a lot of logic in that. So I found hoses I would be willing to drink out of for my horses. Win win!
Do you guys sample the feed? I liked sweet feed as a kid.
My vet takes it one further; she mysteriously seems to know EXACTLY how all the common horse-meds taste, and which ones I need to give with ground-up Altoids. 
The furthest I’ve gone in that direction was to lick a mote of MSM off my finger. It’s bitter. VERY bitter. 
Maybe I can add DVM to my name?
I always sample meds to find out how much disguise may be required.
Bute: bitter
SMZ-TMP: BITTER-ER!
Pasteworm: icky, but not bitter
I never bothered to try MSM as my horses eat it top-dressed w/o any fuss.
Maybe I’ll taste-test it tomorrow…
Ive tried banana stawberry bute liquid, it tasted like better than kids tylenol! Why dont ponies like that!?
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Maybe I can add DVM to my name?
I always sample meds to find out how much disguise may be required.
Bute: bitter
SMZ-TMP: BITTER-ER!
Pasteworm: icky, but not bitter
I never bothered to try MSM as my horses eat it top-dressed w/o any fuss.
Maybe I’ll taste-test it tomorrow…[/QUOTE]
It can’t be any more bitter than injectable Banimine…
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