Smelling of Horse

Flipo's Mum

Flipo's Mum

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Aug 17, 2009
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Recently I'm indulging in a little paranoia. I am trying to be smarter at work - wearing suits, makeup (shock horror) and just generally trying to be more presentable - mandatory really being that I'm out at clients a lot of the time.
I was out at dinner with my manager and a colleague a couple of weeks ago and the colleague and I had drove to our destination together in my car. Our manager was chatting to me about horses because her daughter had them when she was younger and she is quite 'says what she thinks' and blurted out 'yeah I don't miss that stuff. bet your car smells doesn't it?' and the last bit was clearly directed at my colleague who had been in my car recently. My colleague replied that it smelled 'different' or something benign to that effect. I was mortified. I know my stuff smells of horse but I forget to put an air freshener in my car. I'm just worried, I wonder if I smell of horse all the time. My flat smells a bit at the front door as all of my horsey gear lives there. I don't have folk to my flat often, but I'd hate to think that people might perceive me as being a mink.
Does anyone else worry about this? I very rarely will nip to the horses on my way to work to feed, but I literally chuck the buckets in at them and do a walk around to check, being careful not to get too close. Do you think us horsey folk smell all the time even when we haven't been near our horses that day - because we're living with the stuff in our houses, driving in our cars which stink of horse?
 
I don't think we smell all the time, my car certainly does, a lovely humm somewhere between horse sweat and wet dog at the moment :p
 
We don't smell all the time. If you are that worried about your car smelling try keeping your horse things in plastic storgae boxes in there? Thats what I used to do and my car was fine. I should probably care more but ill go see my horse before work and end up poo picking, grooming him, mucking out, hugging him etc. I do change into my work clothes once I get to work but no one has ever commented. Maybe just carry some of that perfumed spray in a handbag and if you ever get a whiff give a quick spray?
 
No, we wash ourselves and our clothes too much to carry that lovely scent with us all the time!

Cars, though, do. But I would rather my car smelled of horse than of those horrid Christmas tree thingies.
 
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My car smells of labrador. I like it though! I hate the artificial smells of those car air fresheners.
 
If i do i dont care :p my car does without a doubt, i get changed and freshened up at work so in theory i shouldnt! I know in winter my coats always smell of horse though :rolleyes:
having worked in a fish mongers and known a few butchers id take horse smell any day of the week.
And if someone honestly was bothered by that then id say well dont talk to me or stand near me.
 
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When i used to work with pigs i could smell it all the time on my skin even if id washed. Although i washed my clothes my boots and my leather belt stunk. It took a good six months after i left the job for the smell to come out of my belt. i only smell of horse if hes wet or sweats up when i ride.
 
When I used to work with horses I would live pretty much in yard gear festering in horse hair, sweat, poop and all the rest! but sometimes I did have a hot shower and go out to party ! I never had any ill comments passed, so I presume I was ok! I did most of my socialising in the village pub anyway dressed in my horse stuff !
 
I became immune to the smell. One yard we were on for some reason, I always smelled more - my mini rather smelled bad when I came to trade it in (it wasn't an old one either, only twelve months old!!) but they were too polite at the garage to say anything. I think it picked up the aroma simply through me getting in with horsey boots on, and their muck heap was always a bit of a straggly mess to walk through. Hmm. Totally does not bother me of course. When we sold our last house it was all spammed up ready for viewers - apart from the downstairs loo - hahahahaa, well I had to keep the rugs somewhere didn't I?! I don't think it put them off, it sold in the end.....heheheee.
I think there are worse smells to be honest, sometimes in Sainos or wherever - people can smell of other odours. If I worked in a proper environment though I would probably be careful not to come into work smelling of horse. Its not everyones cup of tea. Working from home is different, I don't get near to people at all!!!!
 
my car is filthy (think half an inch of mud encrusted permanently in the foot wells etc.) and yes, it smells of horse. but it's MY car, not a work car and anyone getting in in is warned beforehands. I'm lucky that I only need to do horses after work, so shouldn't smell at work. But I'm sure some of my clothes smell regardless. I'm more worried about the perpetually dirty fingernails!
 
The worse thing for carrying the smell is your boots, this is why since getting my new car I won't wear my yard boots to drive in, I keep boots in a bag in the boot and just change into them when I get to the yard.
As OH is allergic to horse I have to change and shower as soon as I get home, so the only place that smells horsey is our spare bedroom.
I actually love the smell of horses, well not horse wee, but everything else, especially warm sweaty horse.
 
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Around here smelling of horses is one of the better odours you might find when you are out and about socialising...cow and pig shite are high on the popularity lists....as is stinking rotten silage! I truly don't give it a thought, my house almost certainly must smell of dogs, but any of my visitors have their own mutts and livestock so wouldn't be bothered. I can get high on the smell of good leather tack and well made hay! ;)

However, when I was a very prim and proper representative of local government I used to do them in the mornings on the way to work, but field kept so no mucking out. I dressed up over my office garb like one of the scene of crimes people......and always changed my boots into my work shoes as soon as I had finished. What a bore it all was!:p
 
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I am doing OH's job on top of my own at the moment. It involves delivering Hermes, UPS and Fed Ex parcels. The first half of the job is in the town then I work my way out to two of the islands.

In the town and the Posh council houses I end up with a headache. Everyone's house stinks of cloying, overpowering po pourri. Really it is over powering and all I am doing is opening the front door, putting the package in and shutting it, Each time I get a blast of over powering stink.

As I get out to the more remote areas and am delivering mostly to farms and crofts the houses start smelling normal, dog, sheep and agriculture. I'd rather not be near anyone wearing strong perfume as sit gives me a blinding headache. my mother used to wear somthing revolting and hugely expensive, could not go near her when she was wearing it.
 
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Cortrasna, a friend was a representative of the establishment, shall we say, and her job involved house visits. A top knob from Edinbugger came to check up on them and gave my friend a telling off for her casual dress. The top knob wanted to accompany her on some home visits to make sure all the correct protocols were being stuck to. So friend asked her what size her feet were and her dress size. The Posh wife was taken aback at such a personal questioning. Friend then supplied her with rubber boots and a coat and told her to leave her posh jacket in the office.

:D :D on her return from the visits she said she was sorry for telling her off at her casual dress code and could see why she dressed as she did.
 
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I'm sure my car must be very smelly as I've had a rug in it for some time that I really must take in to be cleaned. There was the time once that when a car I had went to the garage for its MOT and the mechanic said they usually put plastic covers on the seats to protect them from the mechanic's dirty overalls but in my case it was to protect the mechanic from my car. It was someone we knew so I'm sure it was partly true, partly tongue in cheek. There was another visit to the garage when the mechanic asked why I had so many whips in my car, what did I do with them, was it something kinky.

When I was working it wasn't a problem as I never rode before work so I was always clean and now I'm retired it doesn't matter. On my home from the yard I sometimes pop into a local shop which is often busy with very smartly dressed people from some nearby offices. I find I have a big space round me in the queue.
 
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If you change your clothes and boots I don't think you'll smell, unless you go wafting your hair in the manure or something. Before I had horses I used to catch the train to work with a lady who did her horses before she set off and she never smelled, unless she was wearing her wax jacket! My car stinks of dog from his many trips to the vet recently, which IMO is far worse than the smell of horse. TBH I would be quite embarrassed to have a colleague in it, but recently when I thought I might have to take someone with me to an off-site meeting I told her about the smell and gave her the choice of coming with me or not. She bravely said she didn't mind if the car smelled (even though she doesn't like dogs) but luckily the meeting was cancelled so I didn't have to witness her going green on the journey.

Oh, and one of the liveries on our yard is also a biker and goes away on these bike rallies where they sleep in tents without washing facilities (or if there are any she doesn't use them) and without changing their clothes. Even next to the muckheap she smells far worse!
 
You're all reassuring me that the best thing to do would be to get a job where I can just wear my wellies all day long!
I guess I'm just concerned that its like when you put perfume on - I can't smell it after a ten minutes. Maybe I can't smell that I stink, and lets face it, no one is ever going to tell me otherwise. Except my sister. Right. I'm off to interrogate her about my odour concerns haha!
 
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