When I was 9 my Mom and Dad said I could have a horse IF I stuck with 4H for an entire year. Okay, no problem. I'll learn how to care for a horse, I'll get to ride a horse, fantastic...let's do it. And so I joined the High Valley Gauchos (we had ugly matching jackets). My friend Christine and I were the only people in the group that were horseless. This is a horrible thing to be when you're 9. Most of the meetings were about the next horse related event, like a horse show, which I couldn't participate in because I DID NOT HAVE ONE! Oh, and we had to give these presentations about how to care for horses in front of judges and stuff. Well guess what...I didn't have one, so I decided to do a presentation on something I did have....
That's right. Handicapped Hamster. I'm pretty sure my parents had a good laugh over that one.
I decided to do my presentation on how to care for a Russian Dwarf Hamster...named Baby. Baby was handicapped because she only had 3 legs. She chewed one of them off one day when she got stuck in one of those McDonalds funland type tubes. We were on vacation so it was either starve, or chew your leg off.
Although I do have to give my parents credit for not interfering and allowing me to do my own thing, I was definitely scarred for life. You can tell by my face in this picture, it looks like I'm waiting for the judges to quit laughing. Oh yea, and I never got a horse.
Have a great weekend and please, do all you can to keep from scarring your child!
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Sorry... I have a new outlook now that I'm a parent. Your kiddo wants an animal that costs about $13,000, which is as much as a car. Then you get to take care of that animal while it takes up valuable space in your yard & shits everywhere. Hmmmmm... And that is why we don't have a dog!
ReplyDeletespecial insight coming from the woman who made me pray for a dog! P.S. You sound just like Mom!
ReplyDeleteOh my god, that is so cute, albeit somewhat pathetic.
ReplyDeleteYou know - you can lease a horse... This post was too funny! Good flashback my friend.
ReplyDeleteYou know, in Texas, sometimes we ride horses to work. That, and wear those comically large foam cowboy hats...
ReplyDeleteLiLu- it is pathetic...I'm still suffering.
ReplyDeleteDanielle- You can? I guess Issy is horse enough for me right now.
Eric- I knew I was right about Texans and those foam hats! Do you have to use those bike hand signals when you ride to work? Do you wear the big foam finger when you're doing them?
I <3 your handicapped hamster. Seriously precious story.
ReplyDeletethat is so too funny...we are going through this for a DOG with our girls because all minus david want one. :(
ReplyDeletei like presentation idea but the torturing is funny to look back at, right? ;)
gasp! my father said i could have a horse if i took care of the neighbor's horse. and i DID for YEARS! every morning at SIX o'clock through TWO barbed wire fences! and did i get a horse? did i? can you even guess what the answer is? NO!!!! I DID NOT!
ReplyDeletein conclusion, i love the poster and the look on your innocent little face.
Horseless in Seattle? that's a good title for a movie..no?...is this a bad time to mention that they eat horses in Europe? and probably dogs too in some places!!
ReplyDeleteSo cute :D You look absolutely adorable in the picture too :D
ReplyDeleteOne Sassy Girl- Thanks...well really thank my parents I guess. They're the ones who tortured me.
ReplyDeleteSheree- don't do it. I'm very serious. Do you want Charlie for the night? He will lick his butt on your couch and you'll change your mind.
mylittlebecky- we should start a therapy group called "I didn't get my f'ing horse". I bet there are a ton of us out there!
Gramychou- I'll try dog, and horse. I'll try anything once.
TheChicGeek- Thank you do you really think so? Even with my spiral perm? ;)