Does this happen to any one else???????????

Question

Does any one else get looked weired when you walk into a restaurant or store with your riding boot with spurs on, with "who knows what" dripping off the heals?

Just a little poll.

Answer 1

Yes I get that all the time lol.

My horses are "up the road" so if I'm driving home I'll sometimes go straight past and nip to town so I end up wandering around Asda in joddies, chaps and reflective jacket ( with or without spurs). The funny thing is that if I do that I rarely have to wait for anything and people tend to get out of my way.

There is a nice pub up near the horses and they are just used to it - they never bat an eyelid ( even though it is what you would probably call a "traditional English Pub" ) we just wander in there whenever and in whatever we happen to be wearing at the time. ( quite possibly we are the "local colour" for the tourist trade !

Answer 2

sure does  

Answer 3

I don't wear spurs nor riding boots that were made for riding (call me cheap lol), but I do have leggings and so on that I wear for riding and so I get so many "what is  she wearing" stares when I have to go into places.

Answer 4

Yep. Always.  

Answer 5

lol yeh people allways look at me weird when i walk in some where in my riding gear i take no notice coz its not like they don't know what i have been doing =]

Answer 6

oooo ya all the time haha one time i had to go get something for my mom at target and i just got done mucking out stalls and riding bareback And i had to hurry up and go before dinner so I went like I was and I got stared at alot and some woman was down the aisle i was and she had a little 4 year old and he said "mommy something smells like poo poo...haha i was laughing so hard  

Answer 7

Ahhh-- you lucky Americans. If I could only get a license to carry my pistol on my hip. I do have a pretty cool holster though... made by a saddlemaker buddy of mine. But that being said it'd be waaaay more entertaining if I could actually wear it in public.

You want to see funny looks? Try guiding at an outfitters in a tourist town (for example Banff, AB) and walking down the street for supper with the boys or off to the bar after the days is done in your hat, boots, spurs, chinks, slicker if it's raining, scarf, etc... the d**n tourists get more excited over the "cowboys" than the bloody local wildlife. Ahhh- the summers of my youth ;)

My favorite experience along this line so far has been when my husband and I had dehorned a handful of yearling heifers we were keeping back that year (they got missed at branding-- don't critique). Anyway, if you've never dehorned a yearling... it can be a fairly bloody business. We were covered. Chinks, shirts, faces... yuck. Then we loaded out a few culls that were going to town so were also covered in cow S**t. And had been riding all day. Did I feel like cooking? h**l, no. Off to town we go, spurs on, jeans gross enough to almost walk on their own and covered in an afternoons work. The poor girl at Subway almost fell over when she asked what the brown stuff was and I told her it was blood. I tried to assure her it wasn't from a ritual animal sacrifice but I'm not sure she believed me...

EDIT-- Oh- I have another one. My favorite uncle is a biker. And he has biker buddies. Nothing funnier than going out for dinner with him and his buds if they rode their bikes to the restaurant. Hubby and I sitting there in hats, jeans, boots (they may be my clean pair -- just for him) but when my uncle rumbles in on the Harley and pulls up beside the Dodge and we all walk in together we get some odd stares then too.

Answer 8

Oh my gosh yes! Oh soo many instances! Ya ever get really weird stares from having markings from riding bareback? AKA bareback butt?

Once i went into a target with a bareback butt to get something and a mom made a comment to her daughter wondering what was wrong with me and my dirty jeans! I hope she didnt know i could hear her!

Another time me and my freinds rode our horses down to subway. Soo much fun! We tied our horses up where we could see them and when we went in these people were just staring at us! What's even worse is that i thought they were just staring at my freind jenna cuz she wuz riding in her bikini top and jeans! Took me bout 5 minutes before i could catch on that it was us with our horses that they were weirded out by!

More closely related to your situation though... One day i forgot my riding pants at home so i just rode in my shorts! Ugh so uncomfortable! I dont reccommend it! Anyways! It had rained the night before and i walked into the same subway on my way back home (in a car) and ran into these snotty popular dancer girls from my school! They stared at me and made a face and i could see why because i looked down and my legs were all dust-covered. and my boots were mucky as h**l! Lets just say i turned bright red for bout two days straight!

Then one day i went home with a bareback butt to find my sister with some guys from my grade over! oh! i probably should mention that im not as lucky because i dont exactly go to a horse freindly school! Lots of weird looks!

What was your worst moment?

Answer 9

well i have gotten looked weird at when i have my riding boots and spurs on... but i dont typically go out to eat without changing. also.. i own my horse and we keep her at our house. i do all the barn chores and what-not myself.. im out there multiple times a day and i would have to say if there is something dripping off your heals all the time your horses are either sick or you need to clean up better. so i wouldnt say anything about her not working with horses enough.  

Answer 10

Yes!! haha i have the funniest story about it to.

After a long day of moving hay i walked down the road to a 76 gas station to get some vitamin water, they didn't have any so i started looking around for something else to clench my thirst when i noticed a man who worked there walking right behind me, i was getting a little creeped out so casually said hi to him and then he kept following me. I thought he thought i was trying to steal something because i looked like a homeless person in my barn clothes and mud boots. But then i noticed he was picking up the hay that was falling off of me onto the floor.

I felt really bad because i gave him a dirty look for following me when he was just cleaning up my mess. i apologized to him and everything was cool after that.

Now every time i go in there he makes a joke and asks me if he should get the broom out. hahahah.

Answer 11

When I go to the store in my riding gear, unidentified goo dripping heels and all, people usually give me space.  Guess they don't like my brand of "chanel No 5".

Answer 12

I have a story...not about me though.  When our Texas cowboy friend is in the area, we always go out to dinner at least once.  My grandsons insist that he wears his whole cowboy outfit, including spurs.  They are so proud to be seen out with a real cowboy...they have a fit if he takes his hat off in the restaurant, so he usually leaves it on for them, but he gets LOTS of stares.  

Answer 13

Yes, so I put them up on the seat accross from me and take a napkin and wipe them off.

Answer 14

The nasty boots don't get near the looks...

that my pistol on my hip does.  It's not one of those nylon and velcro ones.  It's leather with the loops and I like to wear it slung down on one side of my hips!  It's like an old western gunfighter's belt and holster.  *Hey...I can 'pretend' I'm a cowboy from way back!!*

Haha...carrying a pistol in plain sight...you don't get NEAR the dirty looks of the citiots that you would normally!  I just love how they get 'bug eyed' and whisper...but they won't come near you!

**EDIT...Ah...when the kingshark thought he had run the hero out of ammunition shooting it out with minions. But he was only half empty.

What book was that??  I can't remember!!

BTW...I love guns...so I had to run and look it up!  It's rare!

Answer 15

HAHA yeah I'm on your side but its fun!! I don't mind getting looks when I go to town surrounded by people who look like they just walked out of a magazine ad for hollister or something and I've got my good ol' fatbabies on :)  

Answer 16

I live in a rural area where there are a lot of farmers in overalls and baseball caps. I am the only one in town that wears a cowboy hat and goes into town dressed for riding a horse. I don't get many looks because the farmers look worse than I do. They usually have grease on their clothes and mud on their boots. I look dressed up compared to them.

Answer 17

Haha yes i do i dont wear spurs but i will walk into stores and resturants with my boots on and my realy dirty jeans and shirts. I usualy try to wipe teh dirt from my face off though lol. are areana is realy dusty sometimes.

Answer 18

Yes, I do. However I do try to get the mud, ect... off of them first.

Answer 19

Nothing drips off my heels or spurs..

Answer 20

Well, for the past 6 years now I've lived in Montana (previously in Pennsylvania), and I must say it is much more socailly acceptable here than it was back east!

Answer 21

Not really.  Half the people around here walk around like that so I think it's become socially acceptable!  Which is a good thing, to me!

Answer 22

I don't know if I've ever actually been stared at, but I have sure felt like everyone in the room is looking at me funny before!

Answer 23

only when i have to make a run into the city for something but around where i live it is a normal thing,actually i get a lot of compliments about my riding spurs (1920s Garcia's that are iron with silver inlays and were my fathers that are only used for riding and not training)most shop owners know what i am doing that day by my spurs and how bad i can smell sometimes but mostly i just get strange looks from the greenhorns that transplant from the city life or from california or other states.i do find it amusing that people from new york or surrounding states ask me where my six shooter is,i just tell them i left it in my saddle bags because my horse is meaner than i am.

in branding season even my dogs cant stand the smell of me.

Kevin.you bring the chips because there is a ton of guacamole around here.

Answer 24

Yeah, I remember a few occasions when I got those weird looks.  One day after a show I was so hungary I didn't change out off my breeches(English show that day, but I'm predominately western) and tall boots.  man the looks, especially since I live in the city.  I mean the only time most of these people see a horse is mounted patrol during season.(live in VA beach-but always in Pungo.)

And then going into KEllys Tavern one day I had on shorts, a Tank, ariats and knee high socks.  ah the looks.

Answer 25

Well, in Story, IN there is a nice little Inn that is accessible from the horse trails of Brown County State Park.  

The upper scale restaurant does not smile upon smelly horse folk coming in off the trail.  But there is a fun pub on the lower level where you can get a tasty sandwich and give the Captain a kiss...

They have hitch racks for us, and potties, so they must want our business somewhat.

I've only had one bad experience there.  They have live music on the patio outside the pub where we eat.  Some of the tourists decided to eat al fresco and were not happy at all to have their meals "ruined by the stench."  This brought a hearty, "F..k you, go inside" from one of my associates.  

It is a tourist location, and happily my experience has been most tourists were excited to see the horses and talk to us about riding the woods and such.  Sure, there are a few who see the privately owned horses tied to the hitch racks and think "petting zoo!" but mostly people are nice, polite enough to ask if they can pet or give a treat to the horses.  I've even let kids sit on the saddle for a few moments if they are particularly enthralled.

Answer 26

yer it allways happens to me people who dont no why you are wearing them for and not only that the smell that comes off ya sometimes after a hard days work around the horse and cattle we get lots of funny looks but i realy dont care because its wat i love and it makes me feal like im a hard worker not like some of these people who look at ya funny leah

Answer 27

I've gotten some pretty strange looks when I walk into a grocery store with my boots and spurs on.  One store manager even asked me to leave because the noise was distracting customers!!!  HAHAHAHAHa.  I couldn't beleive it.  I got what I went in for and left.

Answer 28

alll the time!! lol im proud to wear anything horse related..smelly or not, because im proud to be an owner and rider!

i just today had a girl eye me up with a dirty glare. of course me being me and all, i respond with a half grin to show im friendly. she just glares at me, so i respond.."yes i smell, and yes i ride horses..do you have a problem?" the girl stuttered and walked away lol!!

but i have to say the people at our local diner...always get a sunday morning (busiest day and time of the week for them) visit from us(hey..we get hungry too!), right after cleaning over 30 stalls and in the summer after bailing hay: ) we actually had quite a few people change tables because we smell like sweat, hay, p**p, who knows what else lol! not to mention we have little pieces of hay that are impossible to get off all over us :) riding and working around horses has made me alot more confident, and less concerned about what people think or say.

i wouldnt even THINK about changing my lifestyle!