Sunday, January 4, 2009

Chicago Carriage Industry - A Microcosm of Crazy

I've always said that the carriage industry is a microcosm of the horse world at large. It attracts emotionally unstable people. Because its size is limited to the amount of working licenses, it's a focused group of crazy.

For example, V.B. is blaming the "manager" of Cutters for making her life miserable. What she doesn't understand is that no one wanted her and her boyfriend moving in to begin with, and the decision wasn't made by just one person. There were reasons why they didn't want outsiders moving in. But hey, it's easier to blame one person because the rest of the people involved are so innocent.

All, and I mean all, of the carriage companies are operated with people who have hangups. It's a matter of working for the company with the least amount of drama, or drama that's tolerable.

For example. A Noble Driver is now posting on a forum about how Cutters has inappropriate horses on the street. Yet, another company has horses of the same size that have been working for 15 years. The ignorance is glaring. Keep sharing that crackpipe, folks.