Now, I’ve lived in this city for many a year. Do you have any idea how many horses I’ve seen in this time? Nary a one. But clearly someone thought equine hiking to be a big enough issue to merit the commissioning of signage.
Which leaves me with just one question….where are all
these hiking horses?
When I first started college, I remember feeling like I
didn’t want to go to sleep because I was sure the second I did, something super
awesome would happen that everyone would be talking about the next day. And I
would have missed out on it and all subsequent inside jokes. So, I avoided
sleeping. Which was probably why I courted a fairly constant cold that entire
year. Well, lack of sleep coupled with a diet of pizza, grilled cheese, and any
other food that involved almost solely cheese and bread.
By the time sophomore year rolled around, the manic need to
be in on everything had, thankfully, subsided. At that point I figured, Forget it. I’m sleepy. If something epic
happens, they can tell me about it tomorrow. And there weren’t too many
stories, so I figured I wasn’t really missing out on too much.
Now, I think I was wrong about that. That not only were
supremely exciting things happening after my bedtime, but that they involved
horses. And hiking. So much of it, in fact, that someone was all, For heavens sake, we need to put a stop to
all those kids and their late night horse hiking. It’s just getting absurd. I
know! A sign! That’ll stop them.
And, of course, being the rule following folk that they
are, it did. And they were probably so bummed about having to move their
horses out from under their loft beds, and back into actual stables somewhere
outside of the city, that it was just too painful to talk about. Which is why I
never heard anything about these nocturnal rides.
Now I feel a little bad about how angry I was thinking that
all my friends had horse hiked without me. With them being heart-broken
about losing their horse privileges and all. But, at least that’s one mystery
solved, right?*
*There is also the very slim possibility that the sign is
referring to the horses stabled in the park which the hiking trail runs through. ‘Cause
apparently they have a Horse
Center I just found out
about. So, it could be that. But I’m kinda leaning towards the late night
college kid horse hiking theory.
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