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# Guest Blog entry # 10:  "Rolex (Okay, not Rolex, but it felt like it)"  by: Jennifer Shattuck
- URL: https://www.myvirtualeventingcoach.com/guest-blog-10-rolex-ok-not-rolex-but-it-felt-like-it/
- Published: 2012-10-26T05:32:00.000Z
- Updated: 2012-10-26T05:32:47.000Z
- Author: Administrator
- Tags: Blog, #Import 2026-01-20 00:55

Rolex (Okay, not Rolex, but it felt like it)  
  
  
Righty tighty, lefty loosie.  
  
  
Loosie? Loosey. Loosee? To  
make loose.   
  
  
Note to self – when the guys  
at the trailer shop are doing your annual service, tell them NOT to use the  
hydraulic doobaflotchy thing when putting the tires back on. I look like an  
idiot jumping up and down on the lug wrench by the side of the road.   
  
  
However, a flat tire on the  
way to Pine Top apparently brought fabulous karma for the weekend.   
  
  
Dressage was bellisimo and we  
hung out in 1st place until the last rider nudged me out by 0.9\. Even  
if it was short lived my name was listed first on live scoring. It felt like  
going to the prom with the popular guy, or getting asked for ID on your 30th  
birthday, or finding out that broken cookies really don’t have calories.  
It was . . . ahhhhhh.  
  
  
Where’s the paparazzi?  
Where’s the Chariots of Fire music in the background? Where’s the celebratory  
grog? (oh, the grog is in the cooler. Never mind).   
  
  
And just like that, it was  
over.   
  
  
“Ma’am, you’ll have to step  
off to the side, you’re not in 1st any more. Yes, that means now. No  
we’re not going to do a recount. Ma’am, you’re just embarrassing yourself,  
please. Ma’am, **LET GO** of the podium! ”  
  
  
Better to have loved and lost, blah blah blah.  
  
  
Stadium was . . .  
interesting.  
  
  
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| I think we go left here                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
  
  
 Cool morning + bucking horse  
\+ who’s steering this ship? = 2 rails.  
  
  
But XC. Holy mother of pearl, Batman, did I wake up at Rolex? Your Honor, may I present Exhibit A:  
  
  
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| As a matter of fact I would like a drink And B:                                                                                                                                                                                   |
  
  
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| Say what? And C:                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
  
  
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| I think I'll take the escalator, but thanks anyway                                                                                                                                                                                  |
  
  
But D?:  
  
  
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| Before . . .                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
  
  
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Your Honor, the prosecution rests.   
  
  
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| After                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
  
  
We   
*might* have had a bit of swag walking back to stabling. It was Rolex, after all. And 4th place sure tasted like victory.  
  
  
by Jennifer Shattuck @ http://buildingthegrove.blogspot.com/