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Angie, getting bossy in "your old age" is a privilege that is earned and 
should be exercised.  We've earned our wisdom through living longer, and the 
younger ones need our wisdom to help them along.  Also, I find that I can 
express my opinions without being worried about someone not agreeing with 
me.  I don't care if someone doesn't agree with me, if I have an opinion 
that I believe is right, I will express it without fear.  Conversely, if I'm 
not sure of the issue, I will admit it.  Age gifts us with a greater sense 
of security about our opinions.  I do try to be gracious about it, but if 
it's a safety or emergency issue, I can be very firm.  (Sorry, this may be 
badly worded.  As a schoolteacher, you may critique this.  :-))

Barbara


rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Saturday night at Million Pines we were sitting around talking and
> > suddenly there was a horse in the distance in a one strand electric pen
> > that just started having a fit, neighing, running back & forth in its pen
> > doing rollbacks at each end. We all looked down there and someone said,
> > "That horse is going to get out". A guy walked up from that way and made
> > the same comment. I asked "Did they take its buddy away?" and he said
> > yes, they'd taken it to see the vet. There were two people just standing
> > there watching this horse working itself into an insane frenzy. I watched 
> > for a few minutes, just cringing every time it ran towards the
> > other end of the pen, then just decided that it was rediculous to let
> > people who don't know any better endanger everyone else's horses. So I
> > got up and walked down there and in my best teacher voice said, "Hey, put
> > a rope on that horse before it gets out and gets somebody hurt". They
> > said, "She's done this before", and I said, "Yeah, well  we've had people
> > almost get get killed before so put a rope on that horse and tie it up".
> > Amazing thing happened. They obeyed. I went back to my lawn chair and
> > nothing else happened. I'm getting bossier in my old age...but I can see
> > that when it's something to do with safety, maybe we should get the guts
> > to confront people. Angie
> >
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