no boys allowed in the room!!!!

I had a Kiss lunchbox and a crush on the smartest boy in my class from fourth grade until we graduated high school. Now he's a professor of some esoteric, weather-related science discipline and I'm married to the smartest boy in a different class, so everything worked out in the end.

I do not recall lunchbox themes but I do recall my Trapper Keeper with the horse on it. I recall it in great detail, actually!

I was always drawing horses heads on my papers at skool. Girls and horses, horses and girls.

You were a horse girl! I was talking to a coworker about horse girls, but she grew up on the mean streets of Chicago and said there weren't any many horse girls in her school. I grew up in rural Delaware so I was friends with tons of horse girls, many of whom had their own actual horses.

i did horses, was in a pretty rural area too. i dunno why girls like horses so much. i still like farm animals in general but i don't think i can ever get any, i don't like non-cities anymore.

hello! stuff happening here!

I was forbidden to ride because of surgery on kidneys, so I overcompensated with 30 Breyer models. Was also part of a clique of grade school horse girls: others had more Breyers than I did, we played Little House/'pioneers' in the woodsy bit of the school grounds, developed an elaborate trading system for virtual horses, and got told off for horse drawing contests (we settled it once and for all by sending our horses to some statewide grade school drawing contest and mine placed highest).

we didn't have any horse girls in my school in NE OH. gymnastics and being in the talent show was cool, taking off your underpants and hanging them on the tetherball hook was cooler. (only happened a couple of times, but once it was accompanied by a tandem pee under a bush. not me, the cool girls)

*note this was an all girls catholic school fwiw. there were literally no boys in sight for miles. (i went there from K-7th gr)

well i had a crush on the only american boy in my school when i was about 6-8, i still remember his name: shane c0chrane. he was the cutest boy in school but also the most popular. he moved away, but i ended up marrying the cutest american boy ever, so everything worked out in the end ;) <3

i never had a cool lunch box. my mum made me use ugly boring old tupperware containers.

my little sister was a horse girl and my parents half-leased a horse for her, whatever that means. no one ever half-leased me a horse!

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Zoning laws forbade stabling horses in our town, but one of the horse girls is a grown-up horsewoman living in Austin TX (we friended each other on FB and I wrote 'HA! Traded 100 Breyers for 4 actual steeds, yes?). Most of the horse girls in my school (including her) could manage the horse thing *and* the Nadia Comaneci obsession *and* the Dorothy Hamill obsession. We also made wrist bracelets out of Dixie cups and played 'Wonder Woman' in them.

I lived in the 'burbs and had no horse of my own (over which I cried myself to sleep on many occasion) but I did take lessons. Also: cut out horses from magazines, backed them with card stock, made bridles out of yarn and little saddles of felt, and galloped around the neighborhood carrying them a la the chick in National Velvet. When done galloping came back in and rubbed paper horse down with bit of felt.

So much more I could say about being a horse girl, but it is rather embarassing :(

my mom had 5 horses over her childhood, including 1 foal she raised. her first major in college was horse husbandry but then she abandoned that dream and in our house, we were not allowed any pets, so i drew lots of pictures of horses and did science projects on horse anatomy and would go crazy over all the horses at summer camp and stuff. i still get excited if we go on a trip somewhere and i can do a trail ride.

i did know a girl though, who was kind of nuts, and would run around her house like a horse -- galloping and whinnying and it was a little creepy even to me.

one of my bffs now - was a horse girl - I think she lived on a ranch, so she actually had horses - and she said that having to clean the genital area of male horses is a sure cure for any sexual fantasies involving horses.

ew

yeah - that's how she described it - but if you don't clean it, they could get nasty infections which would require expensive vet care.

no i understand cleaning but i was kind of O_O at horse sexual fantasies!

apparently they're quite common! GIS pony play.

OK for the record I never had horse sexual fantasies! Although I did do the creepy galloping and whinnying :(

i used to wear t-shirts w/ horses on them, too!

i think horses are the new wolf in terms of "hipster fashion" - also unicorns

I wasn't a horse girl, I never really grokked that stuff. I was a bike girl, and a sci-fi girl, and a marching band girl, and a whatever-my-dad's-doing-in-the-garage girl.

So basically I was kind of a boy.

gtfo

the same bff sabrina (the one who dated ryan) and i had our best friend break up over different sci-fi tastes - she liked Anne McCaffrey novels, which just seemed to me like girl/horse stories, except the horses were dragons, and i wasn't really into that. I think I liked more dystopian stuff that was more "serious."

xp to tza Yeah, I have found most of this thread incomprehensible even tho you of all people know I am a giant hair-curling gurl in adulthood. I don't post here much; just checking in today, I guess!

Laurel, please post here more! I don't want to be the only non-horse girl.

horses aren't really a girly thing tbh

i mean irl horses, pictures/models of horses maybe

not exclusively, but ...

I wasn't a horse girl, either. There's a picture of me somewhere sitting at the fifth grade lunch table with Donna the Horse Girl and she has a horse notebook in front of her and I have a copy of Stephen King's Firestarter, which pretty much sums me up, childhood-wise. The juxtaposition, not the book. Try as I might, I am still unable to set things on fire with my mind. :(

ha - that reminds me of roxy's posts that started us on the topic of young adult novels!

yeah i was def not into horses at all. they scared me.

i never "got" science fiction but i don't think it's for boys really

I did love those Anne McCaffrey dragon books. I had the whole series, and the parallel "Harper Hall" ones too. Mostly what I loved about them was the lack of conservative sexual mores because I was sure I was never going to kiss/date/sexor more than one person in my life and it was going to be the one I married and I was pretty in despair about it. But hey, what can you do about God's will?

well - most of the girls in our class weren't into it except me & sabrina.

On other other hand, as joshea is sure to point out, I got to drive a dune buggy. So maybe it evened out.

you were cooler than me - i did logic and math problems with my dad, when i wasn't making up elaborate sci-fi epics with barbies with sabrina.

l u know ilu!

I was pretty wild about Anne McCaffrey, too.

xp - logic and math and Barbies are also cool!

Yes, we did logic problems at the dinner table, and also "Think of words that include the syllable '-round'" (ie around, surround, roundhouse, quarter-round, etc) sort of family competitions.

we played "i'm thinking of a word that rhymes with" games on long road trips - my dad's West Virginia accent was kinda a handicap in this, because he believed that "since" and "fence" rhymed.

People in books that I read were always going on about the Beauty of Nature, and communing with the woods, and getting a spiritual charge from wilderness, and blah blah blah. I remember sitting in a tree and trying to feel something, but nada. I guess when you live in the country it's hard to find the outdoors remarkable?

because he believed that "since" and "fence" rhymed.

Haha! I like this. We sang songs in the car -- rounds and hymns and folksongs and show tunes from all of history that my mother knew. She had a song for every occasion (still does).

I don't even know where half of them come from, tho I bet I could google.

"I love you a bushel and a peck / a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck" <--- why I knew that a "peck" was a unit of measurement

lol that's like how where i grew up "pin" and "pen" rhymed!

xp - that's from Guys and Dolls, i believe.

tza - according to my dad, pin and pen also rhyme.