

2. You don’t receive cutesy horse-themed gifts.
3.
You can, with a clear conscience, pay $125 for a round of golf,
knowing
she just spent a lot more than that on a show shirt.
4.
You can happily say no when someone invites you to travel 150 miles to
watch a horse show. Bonus: you don’t have to eat bad chili
and
undercooked french fries at the concession stand.
5.
You have time and money for a truly interesting hobby, like restoring a
1958 Chevy or fly fishing in Argentina.
6.
Over a lifetime you save thousands of dollars in doctor bills from
horse-
related injuries (which, as we all know, cost more than tennis
elbow or
a knee replacement after 30 years of skiing)
7. You never have to pick that disgusting, reeking gunk out of a horse’s hoof.
8.
Your friends talk about something besides equine breeding; what
clinician
has the prettiest horse; and footfalls (is that left front right
hind or right hind
left hind?)
9.
Your clothes stay clean and the back seat of your car doesn’t smell like a
sweaty saddle.
10. You don’t need to consult with the horse psychic.