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RE: [RC] [RC] re: Rude Rider - Howard BramhallWell, what you really do is just hang out with them. Ride with them for awile, pretend they're your new buddies, your new pals. Laugh too loudly and too often, tell a few off color, really bad jokes, start telling them about your sister's outrageous sex life with the basketball team when she was in college, in detail, discuss politics (I'm a Communist), religion (I think we should all return to Paganism, it makes things so much simpler) or just start singing all the verses of "Alice's Restaurant." Find out what their views are on anything and, then, you turn yours into the complete opposite. If none of this works, take out a bag of chewing tobacco, jaw away, and start spitting profusely. You may have to even resort to letting some of it drool down from your mouth towards your chin. And, smile if any of them dares to look at ya, so they can see the tobacco all over your teeth (don't forget to drool).Anyway, after awhile of this, they will pull off the trail and BEG YOU to pass them. "Go on, please, sir, please, we don't won't to hold up your training ride here." Either that or they'll hightail it in front of you and give your horse something to chase no matter how slow they were previously traveling. Either way, you will no longer be a member of "them," and, the short time they just spent with you will give them something to talk about for the rest of their ride. I once had a group of 30 riders pull off the trail, even though they all had to slide their horses down a very steep slope, just to let me go by them. And, I didn't even have to bring out the chew. I do believe this is some sort of record! This always works! Never had a problem, although there was this one fellow from Arkansas who started talking about shooting me (his wife calmed him down). And, the whole process only takes about 3 minutes, tops. There's more than one way to pass one rider or even a large group. Try it sometime. cya, Howard (thinking outside the "box" makes life so much more entertaining and fulfilling) ----Original Message Follows---- From: Stacy Sadar <stacy_sadar@xxxxxxxxx> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] re: Rude Rider Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:45:37 -0800 (PST) Okay, I have to comment on this one since myself and a few others who ride together FREQUENTLY encounter rude riders on trail. This may not even be at a competitive ride...just plain trail riding or where we are "training" on trail for rides. We are all VERY safe conscious of ourselves, our horses and others on trail. We are the type of people who say "hello" to everyone and make comments on the great day, etc. Very Happy People Here! lol My friend used to get all blown up and bent out of shape at how rude people were out on trail...especially those who were just walking there horses while we where "training" on trail. Usually comments range from..."Why don't you slow down!" "You can't ride there!" "Watch it!" "Get out of my way" "You shouldn't canter on trail!" "Stop running (when we were trotting)" and it goes on with other nasty comments to just plain dirty looks, etc. Anyway, I take a bit of a different approach and act more concerned for the person and make sure they have complete control of their horse and just straight out ask them if they are going to be okay out here in the woods...on trail...outside of the arena. I'm getting really tired of people who expect you to walk or trot slower because they have no control of their own horses. No, none of us run past others or run up on them. We ask if we can pass and when we get by, ask if we can trot away. I'm talking about being 100 yards from someone at a canter, slow down and approach at an easy trot, then a walk to go by. My point to this is that I should NOT have to ride my horse for other people. If they truly feel that my canter or trot 100 yards away from them is causing their horse to be out of control, then I'm sorry but they need to go back to the barn and practice some control. I'm never rude...just concerned...and to a point "shaming" them for how they act towards us. I'm just getting tired of it. Stacy
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