They move!

[intouch]

Had a new kid in Pony Club this morning, Mum assured me he could walk trot & canter and although he was very nervous about meeting the other members (mostly girls!) he assured me he could ride. I thought I'd put him in the beginners ride just in case.
Got him on board and went to help some of the others when there was a loud squeal from Matthew. Whats wrong, Matthew, I thought you said you could ride? But I didn't know he would move! he replied.
It took me most of the lesson to pick myself up off the floor laughing, and he couldn't understand what was funny.
Needless to say he had to have a leader, but he could almost do rising trot by the end of the class, and he was very good at round the world!

[virtuallyhorses]

I hope you had a word with the lying mother as well, if you'd put him in a class who really could trot and canter and then he'd come off I bet she would've torn a strip off you ...

[Tootsie4U]

Although a very funny story, I hope we all learn from that! Ignorant crazy people!

[intouch]

Sadly, he really did believe he could ride, and so did his mother. He had been set on a pony at another riding school and sent off on his own, had left there because he had fallen off, not because they were aware that the teaching was not what one would hope for.

[Cochise]

That is a funny story, but the poor kid for having a mother like that! How old is Matthew?