does your sig other like racing?

[gallant bloom]

i met someone
but when we
went to the
track he didn't
know anything.

it was bothersome
to say the
least.


does your sig
other watch
races?

when u date
do u bring it up?

for the married
ppl, does it ever
cause problems?

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by gallant bloom

i met someone
but when we
went to the
track he didn't
know anything.

it was bothersome
to say the
least.


does your sig
other watch
races?

when u date
do u bring it up?

for the married
ppl, does it ever
cause problems?

To answer your questions:

1.) I don't have a significant other anymore. (Sick of being single too, yuck.)

2.) I tend to bring it up on dates for the sole purpose of being amused... most of the time I get a blank stare. It kinda sucks.

3.) The lack of knowledge about horse racing on my ex husband's part had very little to do with the demise of our marriage (although his disdain for my horse was sickening and certainly didn't help.) It was his infidelity that really did us in, though.

[Sightseek]

The guy that I am seeing isn't into horseracing at all, but when he found out I liked it he read a little about it online, asked me lots of questions and went to one of the sales with me. It probably wouldn't bother me at all if he didn't show any interest in racing since we're both fitness nuts so we have that common ground.

[brianwspencer]

Don't have a sig other now, but I prefer that the person is at least interested in doing some very basic learning about it. I don't need to go find a grizzled horseplayer by any stretch, but I'd at least like the person to be mildly amused/interested/excited about going to the races with me every now and then and being open to learning more about it.

So far so good.

[IrishofNDMan]

my gf hates to gamble, I love to gamble. She will not go to the casino with me, but when there was live racing at Great Lakes Downs she would go with me. After seeing me lose a lot of money one night, she told me to give her $10 and she would show me how it's done. She ended up .60 and I laughed at her the whole way home, but then I realized I had no room to talk because if I was up .60 I would have been damn happy.

She wants to go to Arlington a few times this summer because her family is originally from Chicago, so if it means a day at the track she is down with it. Horse racing never causes problems with us, but the gambling sometimes does, but I already told her it is what I do, take it or leave it.

[IrishofNDMan]

also, I never write on her facebook wall or send her any emails or things like that, so when she came up to me when I was on derbytrail.com and saw 1,000+ post she was a little upset!

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by IrishofNDMan

my gf

This is the part that I find the most shocking of your entire story.

[docicu3]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

To answer your questions:

1.) I don't have a significant other anymore. (Sick of being single too, yuck.)

2.) I tend to bring it up on dates for the sole purpose of being amused... most of the time I get a blank stare. It kinda sucks.

3.) The lack of knowledge about horse racing on my ex husband's part had very little to do with the demise of our marriage (although his disdain for my horse was sickening and certainly didn't help.) It was his infidelity that really did us in, though.

Obviously Cajun the guy didn't deserve you....

[SniperSB23]

I don't think it would be an issue at all until Saratoga season came along. Then it would get very interesting.

[geeker2]

I have a sig other...when she sees me on the computer she says are you doing that horse racing sh*t again...I say no honey I am just surfing porn..

[MaTH716]

My wife (and her whole family) are/were degenerate numbers players. In fact the first time I went to their house for dinner, we were all sitting eating when all of a sudden someone yelled "THE BALLS THE BALLS" and everyone made a break for the living room. Suddenly I was sitting all by myself. About a minute later everyone came back to the table. What happened was the whole family ran to watch the drawing for the daily NY number. Also my mother-in-law (the head degenrate when it comes to numbers and scratch off tickets) works as an operator at OTB. So my wife has gambling bloodlines. She was more of an Atlantic City roulette gambler, but she did adapt nicely to Horse Racing. We would go to Monmouth almost every Saturday in the summer and then go to dinner on the way home. She would read cosmo while I was studying the form. I will never forget the day she hit a $300 exacta the first race after studing the program for about a minute while I was in the form for about an hour. After cashing her ticket, she told my to keep studying as she went back to her Cosmo. She did love Saratoga, except when I dragged her to Saratoga Harness at night. She thought that place was a dump. We are going to try to make it up there this summer for the first time in 5 years. These days she is too busy playing mommy, so she hardly has anytime for herself. So racing is the last thing on her mind when she has a minute. But overall she is a great sport about it, and (almost) never breaks my horns about it. I do hear a little grief about my son having 2 Secretariat and 2 Left Bank pictures on the walls of his room and Seabiscuit, War Admiral and Barbaro beanie babies. And when she hears him say "Daddy look at that Gray speed horse on the rail with the blinkers, I think he is gone" then I do get a couple of dirty looks.

[NoChanceToDance]

Originally Posted by gallant bloom

i met someone
but when we
went to the
track he didn't
know anything.

it was bothersome
to say the
least.


does your sig
other watch
races?

when u date
do u bring it up?

for the married
ppl, does it ever
cause problems?

It's always much easier to date someone who enjoys racing. I used to date a jockeys daughter, thinking it would be a good idea..........

I was wrong.

I brought up a racing conversation one evening and it was met with "will you shut the **** up about the horses, I get enough of this at home"

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by gallant bloom

i met someone
but when we
went to the
track he didn't
know anything.

it was bothersome
to say the
least.


does your sig
other watch
races?

when u date
do u bring it up?

for the married
ppl, does it ever
cause problems?

are you japanese?
i ask because of the form.
the sound of water.

[Mortimer]

i met someone
but when we
went to the
track he didn't
know anything.

======================

Seals don't have good recall.

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Well, my "better half" has tolerated me for almost 18 years...so the racing comes with the package. She's interested in the Triple Crown races and will go to Saratoga a few times (she watches the people and reads her newspaper flyers) When we first met, she enjoyed it more and has gotten use to it through the years. Although, if she is winning - she enjoys it a lot more!

[Mortimer]

1.) I don't have a significant other anymore. Try an insignififcant one.(Sick of being single too, yuck.) The second thing...make two of you.

2.) I tend to bring it up on dates for the sole purpose of being amused... most of the time I get a blank stare.See my comment on seals. It kinda sucks. They balance beach balls better...but whatevah.

3.) The lack of knowledge about horse racing on my ex husband's part had very little to do with the demise of our marriage (although his disdain for my horse was sickening and certainly didn't help.) It was his infidelity that really did us in, though

He shouldn't have messed with things he knew nothing about.

[Mortimer]

The guy that I am seeing isn't into horseracing at all, but when he found out I liked it he read a little about it online, asked me lots of questions and went to one of the sales with me. It probably wouldn't bother me at all if he didn't show any interest in racing since we're both fitness nuts so we have that common ground.
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Please...I'm doing the best I can.


Give me a break already.

[Mortimer]

also, I never write on her facebook wall or send her any emails or things like that, so when she came up to me when I was on derbytrail.com and saw 1,000+ post she was a little upset!
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Wait until she finds out how to read all of your pm's.

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by Mortimer

also, I never write on her facebook wall or send her any emails or things like that, so when she came up to me when I was on derbytrail.com and saw 1,000+ post she was a little upset!
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Wait until she finds out how to read all of your pm's.

Can hardly wait for you're reply to my post

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by Hickory Hill Hoff

Can hardly wait for you're reply to my post

I never said NDman was pm'ing you.