I went to a holloween party, last night and didn't know very many people there. A man asked me (with his wife standing next to him), "what do you do (for a living)?"
I gave my standard answer, " I have a horse training facility and train horses". That said, he launches into a story of his brother who has race horses, and how many he had and how he buys them, races them and sells them...and on the story went. Fifteen minutes later I had heard about every rank, mean, ugly horse that his brother had, and he started to launch into a horror horse loading story (into a trailer).
I politely interrupted him and said, "I train DRESSAGE horses". Blank stares from both of them. I continued "it's an Olympic sport , believe it or not". More blank staring from both of them. "You know, its when the horse goes sideways, and twirls around in a circle and trots in place?".
The woman came out of her coma and smiled and said excitedly "yah yah, I 'seen that!"
The man continued his blank staring. I addressed him taking a different angle on the subject "Have you ever seen the Lipizzan Stallions - the white stallions?" (normally when I encounter these folks when I bring up the Lipizzans they snap back to our reality).
"Ya my neighbor had a white horse, used to come up to the fence so I could pet it!"
I gave up and changed the subject to what SHE did for a living, which was house cleaning!
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