Sharo Rhods:
CLASS OF 1965
St. Thomas Aquinas High SchoolClass of 1965
Florissant, MO
Sharo's Story
I was just doing the questions and answers and it asked if I had ever ridden a horse. Have I ever ridden a horse!! A couple of years after graduation, a friend I worked with wanted me to go horse back ridding. I have been gone so long from St. Louis that I can't remember the park we went to but I think it was out 270. Any way, I had never been on a horse but I was game. They put me on the next to last horse and Kathy was behind me. When I could'nt get my foot in the stirrup, that should have warned me to back off. When someone finally thew me up on the horses back, I was so short that both of my feet wouldn't stay in the stirrups at the same time. We started off walking, that wasn't too bad. Then we went into a trot. That is when things started to get out of control. I bounced from one side of that horse to the other. Kathy was laughing her head off. Pretty soon we went into a run. Thats when I was holding on to the saddle and ...Expand for more
sitting on the horses rear. I was saying Hail Mary's, one right after the other. I thought I was going to die. We finally went back to a walk and I pulled my self back up onto the saddle. Before I could get my self back together the trot began again and then the running and I was praying Hail Mary's again. Of course Kathy is laughing her tail off. I almost fell to my knees thanking Mary for stopping the insanity. Actually, I can't remember getting off that horse. The next morning when I got up for work I could hardly walk. The insides of my legs were raw from being all over that horse. It took a few days before I could walk normally. A few years later after I moved to Georgia my husband came home from work with the wonderful news that a friend invited us to his farm to ride horses! Harold said he would help me. He got me up on the horse and while he went to get on his horse, mine took me into a low tree!! Horses have my number!!
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