Why Horse People and Pagent People Should be Friends…

Last night while watching Miss America (don’t ask) I realized that beauty pageants are a lot like horse shows.

1) Normal people would not be caught dead in our show/pageant clothes. I mean, would anyone out there wear a full on ball gown or a full riding habit in their life if they didn’t have to?

2) Normal people would NEVER pay as much for a hobby as we do. Horse people spend insane amounts of money on tack, I myself have dropped over $1,000 just fixing my saddle and Pageant people spend thousands on a single gown.

3) Normal people do not pay lots of money to have other people yell at them and tell them what they are doing wrong.

4) Normal people do not spend hundreds on entry fees to try and win a prize that is worth only a few dollars.

5) Normal people do not practice the same pattern over and over again.

6) Normal people can not tell the difference between two tests (or walks) but if you put a horse or pageant person in there they could go on for days about how one was better than the other.

7) Normal people think that wearing a bikini and heels inside in January or a wool jacket in August outside is nuts.

8) Normal people think it is weird to stay up all night getting ready for a competition that only lasts a few minutes.

9) Normal people do not have other’s judge their hobbies as cruel. (PETA thinks riding horses is abusive and lots of people think beauty pageants are mistreatment as well).

10) Normal people don’t know how much fun it is for all of us to get away for the weekend to be with other people who understand our crazy hobby!

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