Sh.. Happens.

You are having a nice, enjoyable, trail ride with your horse. It is the same trail that you have been riding for many months, maybe weeks, maybe years, the same horse, the same saddle, the same everything. It's a cold, foggy morning, and you decide to take a ride before work. You got up early this morning, earlier than usual, because you wanted to make it a habit of riding everyday and realized that the only way to do this was to get up and ride every morning before work.

Half way down the trail, same trail as always your horse spooks and shies away in complete fear, discomfort, and shock. It catches you completely off guard, and as the horse is moving away from under you faster than the speed of sound, one of your stirrup leathers snaps.. You struggle to stay in the saddle and you're even able to hold yourself up for a split second, but it is all worthless. The strength of the horse and his sudden movement combined with the stirrup leather snapping and the speed in which it all happened you fall to the ground. Actually you fall, in the cold mud on the ground. Your back, head,arms, legs and almost your full body is covered in mud.

The horse no being sure himself what just happened, just stands there laughing in his mid because you fell so easy. You get up suddenly, you're very pissed off at the horse for doing this. Now, the horse notices that you are covered in something that he does not know what it is. He thinks it's you and sniffs at you for a second, but when you throw your hands up in the air and down by your sides, the horse freaks out thinking, "Holy Sh.. that's what was moving out in the bushes, and now it ate my master, and now it's out to get me." That's what the horse thinks. So he, the horse, runs home as fast as he can to find shelter and comfort. You chase after him stupidly thinking that by chasing you'll be able to catch up and ride home so you can shower, and make it to work on time. It does not happen. So you end up walking home.

When you get home the horse is minding his own business, just eating his hay. He has already forgotten about you, it has been several hours after all since you got dumped in the cold wet mud. You shower and go to work, you are three hours late. You explain to your boss what happened, but your boss does not care, you had an important meeting and you were there late, very late.

Now you are furious, you lost your job, and it wasn't even your fault.

You blame it on the stupid horse. When you get home and explain the situation to your spouse, he/she tells you that Sh.. happens. And he/she is right. Unforeseen events happen to all of us, and we cannot blame our horses for a bad day. The horse heard something or smelled something, that he was unfamiliar with, and when that something got closer, he spooked. We spook too when something or someone pops up out of no where and scares us.

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