if you yell at them to sit down and shut up before they get a chance to be defiant you don't have those problems.
No f'n shit.
There were these kids at the barn where I keep my horse, they belonged to a bleached haired, mini-skirted, hummer drivin', 40 something MSLF (Mom Someone else'd Like to Fuck 'cause I'm sure as shit not interested). She owns horse out there, though like the majority of the people in AZ with horses, doesn't know WTF she's doing.
There were always about 5 of these kids, well, heathens really. Three boys, all with those tennis shoes that have roller skating wheels inside the soles and 2 bored chunky unkempt girls.
Personally, I have two rules in a stable full of animals that can weigh 750lbs to a ton, kick at anything it decides is worth fearing (real or imaginary), then bolt and blindly run over anything (or one) in it's way.
1. If you're a dog, don't bark, don't run and DO NOT CHASE.
2. If you're a kid, don't yell, don't run and DO NOT CHASE.
Now I have to add don't roller skate to that. The boys would tear throught the barn (most of it dirt) then hit concrete (doesn't matter where or who's standing in the way) and fly across it on their wheels. The girls jogging behind whining and complaining that they were hot, tired and/or thirsty.
I would hear them throughout the stable say something that put fear in my heart: "No, we can't do that, we'll get busted."
Not only had these heathens had already picked up lingo they will need when they graduate to full-blow delinquents in their teen years but exactly WHAT could they get busted for out in the middle of nowhere in a barn full of horses that doesn't require some poor horse to unwilling participate in?
Fortunately, I was not the only one and with the next board bill came a letter to everyone: children under 15 must be accompanied by an adult AT ALL TIMES.
Whoo Hoo!
It's unfortunate though, because I know of some kids out there (students of mine) who are younger than 15 but know enough and respect the horses enough to be fine by themselves. They won't do anything stupid.
It sucks one idiot's kids fuck it up for the kids who WANT to be there. I was working with horses in exchange for riding lessons when I was 12, if that bitch and her kids had been around then she'd find scratches in her hummer. I hope her horse steps on her foot and breaks all her toes, she'd deserve it. "That's why you don't wear cute little sandals to the barn bi-atch!
Ok, my kid/bad parenting/ignorant horse owner rant is over. Back to the D'backs.
