So, Can You Ride A Horse?

From the time that Darlene and I became friends I spent almost all my time at her house. She lived on a farm with her mother, big brother, little brother, step sister and step father. They had cows, horses, dogs, cats and all kinds of creatures, so different from my home life. One day Dar asked me if I could ride a horse and if so did I want to. My answer was, of course I can ride a horse who couldn't ride a horse, you just get on and then the horse does all the work. I was wearing a pair of jeans that were too big for me so Dar's little brother let me borrow his rainbow suspenders. So after I was " suited up " we went out to ride the horses. I got on a very large horse, I don't care what Dar may say now, but this was a very large horse. Getting on was not as easy as I had assumed but I finally did it. Once on the large horse I had no idea what to do, I trusted that the large horse would know but we just sort of sat there with me on the large horse. I was starting to feel somewhat comfortable even when the large horse took a couple of steps. Then Dar's step Dad came from out of no where on a tractor, hind sight tells me that it is almost impossible to sneak up on someone while driving a tractor, but at the time it seemed like that's exactly what he did. I got startled and the large horse got startled so he took off with me on his back- for about 15 seconds and then I was on the ground. I hit my head on something, I do believe it was the tractor and then I just laid there on the ground. Dar's little brother came rushing over to help me, so sweet of him right?!, wrong he came over to brush the dirt off of his rainbow suspenders. He actually said are you all right while never making eye contact just cleaning off his suspenders. Dar's Mom was afraid that I might have a concussion so she made Dar stay awake all night to keep waking me up to see if I was okay- now that's true friendship:-)
So to answer the above question- No I cannot ride a horse!
Dar's little brother did redeem himself- a few years later when I was looking for a place to live he told me that I could live in his tree house- now that was sweet. But he never did offer to lend me his rainbow suspenders again!