EN blogger finalist Yvette Seger is back with more Tips for Eventers Living in Itty-Bitty Apartments in the City. Yvette will always be remembered for the famous Insane Walmart Ride, and we welcome her contributions to Eventing Nation.
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From Yvette:
Tips for Eventers Living in Itty Bitty Apartments in the City – The Eavesdropping Edition
Just another Friday night convo with an Eventer!
Hello Eventing Nation! While many of my eventing buddies are tearing it up at Plantation Field, Marlborough, Poplar or Stonegate, I find myself in the backwoods of…New Jersey?! I know, that sentence was almost as hard to write as it is to read. I’m actually only passing through New Jersey (signal collective sigh) on my way to judge a Pony Club rally for the Metropolitan Region in Connecticut. Thus far, this is turning out to be a great gig – I just get to chill out on the train and surf the internet do some very important policy wonky writing for work, rather than what I normally end up doing, which is sit in traffic and relay visual indicators to my fellow drivers to say, “hey, you’re number one!” So yeah, I’m a pretty happy monkey…
And then Annoying Cell Phone Girl decided to sit right behind me.
While my interaction with Annoying Cell Phone Girl took place on the Amtrak Northeast Regional, you can have these sort of encounters almost anywhere…the supermarket, the bus stop, the office…heck, there have been times when I’ve been walking my cross country course to only want to whirl around and scream “shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!” (yeah, I know, anger management issues.) My Amtrak Chatty Cathy (sorry to all EN readers named Cathy – nothing personal, I swear!) was excitedly calling what seemed to be her entire cadre of frenemies to brag about the ah-mazing apartment she found in DC’s Logan Circle, and it’s ah-mazing feature of an enclosed patio with an ah-mazing view of – wait for it – an alley, at the ah-mazingprice of $1,750 (Editorial note: that’s not too ah-mazing for a 1BR in DC). And while her sing-song-y Valley Girl voice and repeated use of the word ah-mazing were annoying, I can almost guarantee that none of my fellow train passengers were eavesdropping and thinking, “does this chick moonlight as a dominatrix?” Which leads me to today’s tip…
Tip for Eventers Living in Itty-Bitty Apartments in the City #7:
I don’t recommend having phone conversations about riding or riding apparel in the common areas of your building when other people are around. For instance, talking about chaps, half or otherwise, whips and spurs will probably illicit both befuddled or excited looks. Similarly, phrases like, “riding him hard and putting him away wet” may get you the reputation of “the freaky girl in Apartment 20B”.
