Woman horse rider kicked out of Tesco store because she was 'too smelly'

[Runcible Spoon]

"Time was when the ripe smell of horses and livestock was an ordinary part of day to day living.

In modern Britain, however, the 'smell of the countryside' - like so many other harmless aspects of life - has been branded a health and safety menace.

Amateur horse rider Krys Gunton fell foul of the edict when she walked into her local supermarket in her jodhpurs and riding boots, having just finished an early morning ride.

She was astounded when, as she gathered her groceries, a security guard tapped her on the shoulder and told her: 'You're smelling too much'."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1119002/Woman-horse-rider-kicked-Tesco-store-smelly.html

Wow, I like the smell of horses a hell of a lot more than people who think they must bathe in Axe. :puke:

[LeftyMom]

1. After a hard ride, the issue was more likely the smell of sweat than the smell of horse

especially since she hadn't changed any clothes.

[Runcible Spoon]

3. well, horse sweat...

I love the smell personally, but it can be a bit pungent. Nothing to kick anyone out of a store for, since she wasn't tracking manure. I grew up in a farming community and the dairy kids always smelled like barn, even though they changed for school. They got teased a lot, very sad.

[geardaddy]

2. 'You're smelling too much'.

What was she smelling?

[Runcible Spoon]

4. gotta love the Brits

a comment like that could get turned into a Monty Python routine in 5 seconds flat!

[geardaddy]

5. That was my first thought...

The episode with the "Killer Joke"

[redqueen]

6. Tesco is like their version of Wal Mart.

How much would someone have to reek over here before they'd be thrown out of a Wal Mart, I wonder...

[geardaddy]

8. What about ASDA...

That's owned by Mal-Wart.

added: You ever been to a KwikSave?

:scared:

[redqueen]

10. I might have heard of ASDA... but I've definitely heard a lot about Tesco.

Never been in a KwikSave, no... why do you ask?

[geardaddy]

11. Kwiks...

is probably the most disgusting supermarket in Britain.

[redqueen]

12. Hah...

is there one like it here?

[geardaddy]

18. Imagine a supermarket run by K-Mart.

nuff said.

[mwooldri]

19. I've been in a Super K-Mart.

And a Kwik-Save is NOTHING like Super K-Mart's grocery section.

To me, Kwik-Save is a posh Aldi, but with crapper products. In my student days they had the cheapest baked beans at 5p a tin (this was in 1994 mind) and they were rock hard like bullets. Bread was 10p, and it was OK toasted but that was it.

Mark.

[geardaddy]

21. I've only actually been to the one in Bangor.

It just seemed like a crap place. Aldi wasn't much better, but at least it looked kind of clean. Kwik-Save in Bangor was creepy and sad-feeling.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Sorry to break the bad news, but Kwik Save went out of business last year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwik_Save

and the few stores that got rebranded after that are more or less going under too. All that just at the point when a recession means that the discount retailers like Aldi and Lidl are doing well.

[geardaddy]

31. Yeah, I saw that news.

I used to buy my basics at Kwik's when I lived in Bangor in 2004. That lovely pink paint... :puke:

[JVS]

26. ASDA is technically their walmart, but Tesco has the omnipresence and total dirt cheapness that...

are so important to Walmart's status as an American Icon, so I'd say that Tesco really is the British Walmart.

[Phillycat]

22. Not in London, it's not. It's a grocery store.

Maybe in other areas of the UK. :shrug:

[tigereye]

7. can't wait for the lawsuit on that one...

That just seems silly. Was it in Sloane Ranger turf or something?

[Runcible Spoon]

9. what's a Sloane Ranger?

:scared:

[tigereye]

13. rich upper class young folks with too much time spent shopping

young, upper class and upper-middle-class men and women living in South-West London. The word play term combines "Sloane Square", the fashionable and wealthy London area associated most in the public imagination with "Sloanes", and the television cowboy character "The Lone Ranger".
Initially the term "Sloane Ranger" was used mostly in reference to women, a particular archetype being Diana, Princess of Wales. However, the term now usually includes men. Male Sloanes have also been referred to as "Ra Ra Ruperts" and "Hooray Henrys" (though said terms more accurately apply to the louder, male Sloane Ranger male subset).<1> The Sloane Rangers have their equivalents in other countries: in the USA they are 'Preppies'; in France they are called 'BCBG' (bon chic, bon genre)


it just seemed like complaining about someone's smell seems like a ritzy area kind of thing to do. But you would think that the "horsey" set would be exempt...

[Runcible Spoon]

14. ahh that makes sense

I knew vaguely what being "sloanie" meant in Britspeak. Yeah I don't know why anyone would be bothered by horsie smell...I used to go into grocery stores like that all the time and I'd mostly get hit on bc the boots and breeches look kinda fetish-y I guess.

[tigereye]

15. I always thought it was kind of a nice smell - very natural and earthy

[Deja Q]

16. Something smells awfully fishy about that accusation

:yoiks:

[Runcible Spoon]

17. What are you implying here?

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. She'd been riding seahorses!

:hahahahahahahahahaha:

[mwooldri]

20. Oh gosh the old townies vs countryfolk debate.

And in a place that borders London ...

I've smelled worse people when working as a checkout clerk in the Surrey Hills, and no, they haven't been horseriding.

Mark.

[bikebloke]

24. I had planned on a horse trek in Argentina.

Then I found out that long pants were required. I'm a staunch shorts wearer. But I had only one pair of jeans, which I needed for the flight back back. I reckoned they'd be smelly after a day's ride over a mountain. So I did something else.

[Runcible Spoon]

25. You can't ride in shorts, silly boy

You're just asking to get your legs chafed up by the saddle leather. Although, in Argentina most of the criollo horses are in saddles that look somewhat like big pieces of wool padding and fleece wrapped around a wooden frame. There are still stirrup leathers so yeah, I wouldn't try it in shorts. You missed an incredible ride!

Argentina and horseback riding, two things I know lots about! Woohoo! /flex

[bikebloke]

27. I ride a bike in shorts.

A horse isn't that much different. Just stirrups instead of pedals.
:evilgrin:

[Runcible Spoon]

28. I'll pretend like I didn't hear that!

Can't snuggle a bike after a bad day and feel reciprocated affection...well your mileage may vary :P

[Danger Mouse]

29. I think it was probably the ripe smell of BO more than horse.