Interesting day.....

hey guys so today was an interesting/cool day, but overall it was fun! So I woke up this morning and we headed over to my new "client's" house so I could help him work with his horse, he has a 4 year old gelding named Copper who has only ever had 30 days of training as a 2 1/2- 3 year old, and has had virtually nothing done with him from that time to now, so he has developed a few bad habits to say the least I havn't seen them all but from what I got with working with him, he is VERY pushy, he loves to try to shove you over, he about got me on my butt by shoving me over a few times, but he decided that wasn't a good idea when shoving me over got his face bopped away from me....... he tried to kick out a few times but nothing I couldn't handle I did lunging for respect stage 1 with him and got him from trying to run you over to working nicely turning when asked and it all went pretty well, when I incorporated the owner it was a little harder, he is considerably smaller than me (but our legs are the same length lol) and build wise, and this horse has pushed him and his family around for at least 3 years now, so it was a little harder for him and he had some mishaps with that but it eventually got a little better, and his mom bugged us about riding him, so we went over and tacked him up, and he (saddly) rides without a helmet..... first he hopped up and the horse did okay, we had done a little flexing on the ground, and that helped him in the saddle, I explained to him one rein stops and practiced them, he did that for a bit and said I would have hopped on, but I didn't have my helmet with me, he said that he had one in the trailer, but only used it because it was required for when they had ridden at shows, so i went into their trailer and found it, and turns out he has the same helmet as I do, a size smaller but it still fit, PS its a troxel inaped (idk how to spell it very well) and they are good helmets :) and I hopped up on Copper, he was very fussy going to the left so we did lots of left side one rein stops and turning, and I mind you we did this all at the walk, first time on a new horse that had only had an hr or so of good ground work in its 4 year life I wasn't about to put myself at risk.... but we went from him having to pull quite hard on the rein to a considerably lower pressure turning to the left, and to the right was okay to start out with, and by the end all I really had to do was jiggle the rein and I was slowly starting to add in leg ques, and he was doing very good, he started getting a little fussy, so I did some flexing and he FINALLY had a good flex to the left and we stopped on that, I put my leg over and laid on my belly on the saddle and rubbed him down a bit, after that his owner cooled him out and put him away, after that we talked about what I had worked on him with, and we made plans for the rest of the summer (kinda) we worked out what days would be best for all of us, and we are even planing on taking him with us to Brushy (kid and horse) we would have the owner/kid work with Chuck so he could get better at handling a horse with the method so he could learn what he needs to do, and I work with Copper and help him learn what he is sopose to do and even the playing field, because green + green = black and blue.... right now his dad had to go on a short deployment for a few weeks he only had a few days to pack and he normally helps the kid work with him, but from what I heard does the wrong thing by trying to work with him, then the dad gets frustrated when the horse does the wrong thing and puts him away, they have even gone as far as to using a chain. So I hope the kid will fallow through with this and see it just takes time and it the only person who works with the horse is me, the horse will never get any better for them.... it was interesting because on the side of the road on the way there, there was (saddly) a dead faun on the side of the road, but I had leaned over to look out the window to see it better and as we drove a bald eagle had started to dive for it, but stopped when we came by in the truck, I was so amazed by it (im a nature freak) but it was so cool!!! So after that we went home and ate lunch and then I went to my dads house and we just hung out, then my dad made me drive to my grandmas house and right at the bottom of the big hill leading to her house is a completly blind curb, I personally am a sissy when it comes to driving even though I drive huge trucks and on Friday even pulled our gooseneck trailer back down to the farm on this same road and curb.... but I am still a sissy when it comes to driving, no im not scared i'll screw up, im more scared of other idiots and today my fear was proven even more, we were comming around the curb and I was on my side of the road, and out of nowhere comes a truck and a teen going on a "joyride" sliding sideways around the curb going who knows how fast with the front of his truck pointing directly at us, (upon later talking to my grandma, he had been doing it for 10 mins prior and had been spinning out at the bottom of her driveway...) I jerked the wheel over so we were right next to the ditch and hit the breaks and slowed way down, and my dad is very protective of us lol to say the least, he screamed at me to get out and trade him places, I jumped out and I walked through part of the ditch to get in on the other side and he was yelling and muttering under his breath, we followed him and my dad was able to catch up because he has been driving the roads for his whole life, so my dad caught up and the guy continued to slide around the corners and the curbs at the top of the hill, you could see his skid marks all over, my dad waited for him to come up to the stop sign and pulled up next to him, he basicly exploded about then, his blood was boiling.... he probably said every curse word he knows but the thing I think hit the kid most (who couldn't be more than 17-18 is when he said, my 15 year old daughter was driving and you could have just killed her.... when my dad was done talking the boy said im sorry, I appoligize sir.... and my dad said good, don't do it ever again, especially on my road.... we had his plate number but my dad is a little old fasion and thinks that what he did was enough and the kid didn't need anymore, my dad told us after we turned around and headed back for my grandmas that it the kid had been nasty about it or reacted violently he would have reported it but only then... anyways i always get the interesting experiences when driving lol after we talked with my grandma we went back to my house and we ALL (all 4 of my parents, birth and step, and Nicks dad, and all the kids minus my step moms girl) had supper of pancakes bacon and sausage, it was yummy, and we all just hung out and talked and watched the carbonaro effect (really cool tv show) and we all had a good day.... Happy fathers day to all the dads out there!