To have just shouted at a horse rider outside my house

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Have namechanged for privacy.

I am so angry right now. We sometimes (twice a year at most) get horses going past our house as we live around the corner from a small private farm. We live in a city, so it's quite a novelty when we hear the sound of "clip clop" outside.

About 20 mins ago we heard the sound of clip clop and I took DS to the front room to look outside. As we watched the horses go by one stopped and kind of turned around and SHITTED RIGHT OUTSIDE MY DRIVEWAY. Not a small bit...a big arse full of horse shit. And the rider laughed at her other horsey friends.

As soon as I saw it I put my shoes on and ran outside and the rider was going on her way again. Her friends had gone up ahead. I ran up to her shouting "excuse me" and she wouldn't stop. I shouted at her if she was going to clear up the horse poo outside my house and she replied "stop shouting at me" without even turning around to see I had a toddler in my arms.

I couldn't go any further because I was holding my DS and had left a sleeping baby inside.

Now I have a pile of horse shit outside my house, and I want to actually KILL this horse rider. Our road is a school route and I don't want children stepping in it but why the fuck should I have to clear it up? I am so pissed off. I want to get into the car and hunt down the fuckers and pull them back by their ears and tell them to clean it.

People, this thread is playing HAVOC with the MN advertising spybots...

I'm getting ads for the 'Horse and Carriage Shop' with good deals on harnesses, carriages and accessories. I wonder if they will be a bit when they get a bill at the end of the month for banner ads on Mumsnet

Earlier on in the thread someone said that horse manure is laced with tetanus germs and therefore could be a health hazard.
This may be true but tetanus germs are in the soil, on plants, they are everywhere. Not just in horse poo. If you are worried about tetanus (or indeed anyother germs) you would have to keep yourself and your children indoors for the rest of your lives.

This thread has made me very sad.

People, this thread is playing HAVOC with the MN advertising spybots

ha ha I noticed that and have spent 10mins browsing saddles

kotinka Should we rein in the puns a bit, do you think?

Will you lot stop foaling around, this thread is serious shit!

Oh yes! I've got an ad for the Elite Racehorse Syndication!

Elite are great - nice cheap option for those wanting to own a racehorse

I'm impressed at how MNers have harnessed their creativity.

OP perhaps you should have run this pasture neighbours and see what they thought?

Exit, why the long face?

I have an ad 'Try Horse Riding'. What's annoying is that they advertise to people who already dabble or have their product.

Ha ha.

No. I cried at mrsmorton's post.

It makes me sad that people feel such vitriol for horse riders.

And that so many people have such little understanding of the equine world.

Are some posters mistaking flapping arms for acknowledgements?

I wear a watch with a metal link bracelet and I like it to be loose.

The only problem is that when I change gear it slips down, so I shake my wrist to get it back up my arm.

One day I noticed the man behind me going mad. When the lights changed, I changed gear and shook my wrist again and realised he thought I was calling him a wanker.

As a rider and horse owner, I am so relieved that the vast majority of people are sensible. However (and I haven't had he time cos been mucking out to read all the posts) .....is the OP real? Do people really think that riders should carry a shovel and pick up poo. I appreciate that not everyone has the love for horses that I do but honestly......she can't be real.

Exit how about writing to Gove and asking him to make Patricia Leitch books compulsory for schoolchildren? In the letter, you could point out that she's the only writer I've ever known to incorporate the word hirple (which rhyme with purple!), so she obviously has inherent educational value, quite apart from the content on Don't Scare Horses.

I think the OP is just trying to stirrup trouble

MrsMorton slows down. Her horse was killed in a RTA

MrsM - so sorry