Pony Very

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Pony Very

My Pretty Pony, it Ain't

I have always had a fascination with horses. They are certainly magnificent beautiful creatures. However fascinating they are just as intimidating at least to me. I remember back in the day when the Photographer would wander through the neighborhoods leading a Pony. They of course would entice little kids ( I was one then) to get their parents to pay the man money to get a picture of their cute kids on top the pony. All excited I ran to the house, Mom, Mom I shouted and so she agreed. When the Pony man arrived at our house I got scared and began kicking and screaming when they tried to place me on the pony and so they posed me by the pony for my picture. Just as the Pony man was about to snap the picture that darling Little Pony turned his head back at me and nipped me on the chest and I swear he smiled at me. Screaming bloody murder mom rushed me into the house and placed a cold compress on my wound. Thant was my first encounter with a horse. Back then I actually thought a Pony was just a baby horse. Now I m not so sure anymore.

A few years pass and now I m in the 5th grade and Girls are starting to get my attention, especially Elly Sue Blakefield, When she smiled it was like submerging yourself in a warm liquid, just so exciting yet relaxing you felt like You Were melting away like the wax of a burning candle oozing down the sides. You Know What I mean, Right? Well anyway Elly Sue was a horse lover and invited me over to her stable, you know what that means, right? All excited I rush home from school, slap a bunch of my dads Old Spice all over myself an head on over to Elly Sue’s. My heart was pounding so loud I could hear it in my ears and I m thinking I might get lucky and Kiss Elly Sue, Wow! When I arrive she’s grooming her horse “Thor” she introduces me, not wanting to seem shy I step up and pat Thor on the rump, Thor swishes his tail in my face, it actually hurt. “He like you” She laughed and I smiled just about that time Thor stomp’s down on my foot, I fall to the stable floor in pain. Now for those of you not familiar a stable floor in a horse stall is not under any circumstances a Groovy place. Oh My God are you alright Elly screams and throws her arms around me to comfort me. Needless to say the pain in my foot ruined that moment. Elly Sue and I never got together after that.

In my early twenties I met Tracy she was gorgeous and I was smitten. Tracy of course was a horse lover ( are you sensing a theme here?)I was living in Long Beach at the time
Not many horses there so I felt pretty safe. Beautiful Tracy invited me to Palm Springs for a weekend. I m so excited. No really, I mean I m realllly excited. The date finally arrives and what a great weekend it was. By Monday morning I could barely walk, my body was so sore I thought I needed a cast. Now your probably thinking “Alright”! Well not really. Let me paint you a picture...Palm Springs in August, 2:pm, 119 degrees F, a staple in the desert and a Black Stallion. Oh yea! We went horse back riding, well not exactly. Tracy went riding. I got on the back of this giant horse and it took me for a ride. That’s right, when I pulled the reins right the horse went straight, when I pulled left the horse went straight, if I pulled harder he’d yank his head back almost pulling me from the saddle. And speaking of the saddle, my God who ever designed this thing. My testicles are scrunched up inside my body, my bottom is blistered and my tail bone splintered. I was getting burnt crisp in the desert. This was a 2 hour ride that last a lifetime. Your probably thinking I wasn’t sitting in the saddle properly, and you’d be right, lets face it Horse back riding was not my motivation for this weekend. Tracy and I kind of drifted apart after that weekend, I think we had different interest or something.

Getting back to the beginning of this article Maybe it was the cowgirls I had the fascination but with no matter what, I’m over it. I admire horses from a distance now and I look at horse people with great admiration. I can understand the attraction and the feeling they must experience riding and controlling such a magnificent beast

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