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The whole horse buying debacle is a little like internet dating. Not that I have ever actually been on a date founded online, but this is what I imagine it must feel like.
It starts with swiping through multiple adverts, too tall, too short, too hairy, too ugly and so forth. After your eyes light upon that advert with a cute prospective partner then you have to read the blurb. Just like in internet dating there are 'code' words that you have to decipher...
'Forward going' or 'loves to work' = strong and hot, good luck stopping!
'Puppy dog on the ground'= demon under saddle.
'More Whoa than Go' = You're probably not getting out of walk. '
'Needs an experienced rider'= Good luck not dying'... and on it goes. I am sure that you can all add an awful lot of other sales phrases to this list!
Once you think you have ticked all your boxes of the perfect prospective partner, then you actually begin to communicate online. Usually it starts with online messages. I would be one of those women who would put every man off, as I ask a standard and pretty huge list of questions. Soundness issues, quirks (ground and under saddle), hacking experience, show experience, good traveller blah blah and about fifty other blahs. If after all this time, I still haven't put said prospective partner off or bored them to death, there is still the question of the medical and the first date. Unlike in internet dating, we actually have the option of getting a full health check done on our prospective partners. This is a nail biting time. All that excitement and hope of meeting 'the one' could be crushed if 'the one' doesn't have the ability to, erm, perform to your satisfaction.
As of this moment, I have scheduled a medical on Mr. tall, dark and handsome, who is over in a very remote bit of middle America. I will be hovering nervously over my mobile phone, waiting for a call from the medical team sometime on Thursday. If all goes well then we will follow this up with our first date sometime near the end of this or next week.
The whole dating scene is quite an emotional rollercoaster, which prepares you for the ups and downs of a life together I suppose. You always just have to be prepared emotionally (and financially) to walk away if the match just isn't right. I have a few possible partners lined up though if this one doesn't work out, covering my bases if you like.
Right now, I am off to make a list of more questions to ask. I am sure they can deal with just a few... maybe like thirty more...
It starts with swiping through multiple adverts, too tall, too short, too hairy, too ugly and so forth. After your eyes light upon that advert with a cute prospective partner then you have to read the blurb. Just like in internet dating there are 'code' words that you have to decipher...
'Forward going' or 'loves to work' = strong and hot, good luck stopping!
'Puppy dog on the ground'= demon under saddle.
'More Whoa than Go' = You're probably not getting out of walk. '
'Needs an experienced rider'= Good luck not dying'... and on it goes. I am sure that you can all add an awful lot of other sales phrases to this list!
Once you think you have ticked all your boxes of the perfect prospective partner, then you actually begin to communicate online. Usually it starts with online messages. I would be one of those women who would put every man off, as I ask a standard and pretty huge list of questions. Soundness issues, quirks (ground and under saddle), hacking experience, show experience, good traveller blah blah and about fifty other blahs. If after all this time, I still haven't put said prospective partner off or bored them to death, there is still the question of the medical and the first date. Unlike in internet dating, we actually have the option of getting a full health check done on our prospective partners. This is a nail biting time. All that excitement and hope of meeting 'the one' could be crushed if 'the one' doesn't have the ability to, erm, perform to your satisfaction.
As of this moment, I have scheduled a medical on Mr. tall, dark and handsome, who is over in a very remote bit of middle America. I will be hovering nervously over my mobile phone, waiting for a call from the medical team sometime on Thursday. If all goes well then we will follow this up with our first date sometime near the end of this or next week.
The whole dating scene is quite an emotional rollercoaster, which prepares you for the ups and downs of a life together I suppose. You always just have to be prepared emotionally (and financially) to walk away if the match just isn't right. I have a few possible partners lined up though if this one doesn't work out, covering my bases if you like.
Right now, I am off to make a list of more questions to ask. I am sure they can deal with just a few... maybe like thirty more...
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