*thinks hard*
Well there is the time when I had to go do some errands at a friends house I was looking after while they were away.

To get there I had to ride my horse about 4 kms up the road, through two several hectare paddocks and go up another road for about 200m.

Said Paddocks were full of wire on the ground, so I had to dismount (Oh yeah, think of all the dirty jokes you like) and lead my horse carefully through the wire infested ground.
The paddocks were also full of bad tempered steers, about a year old. So me, having given up my perch of safety, had to get out the whip and swat the horrible steers, they kept charging me!!!

Having navigated safely through said paddock to the house and then done all the chores, I had to go back through the paddock. This I managed. I got to the last gate (which was open because the cows were blocked by an electrical fence about half the paddock away), and tried to get back on the old girl.

Except of course my foot got wrapped around a bit of wire on the ground, and as I put my foot in the stirrup, it flicked up and nicked the back of my horse's hoof. Such a tiny thing but it scared her so much that she reared, threw me off, trampled over my back and ran straight back into the angry steers paddock, and I had to run (with what I suspect were several cracked ribs, never got it checked but couldn't breathe properly for about a month) through the paddock with angry cows, wheezing and in pain, and when I eventually caught her, she headbutted me.

Not a good day all in all.

Did I mention it was Christmas day? Yeah. Shit loads of fun that Christmas was.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 27 Apr 2008, 6:49, Reply)