Live show Blues

I went to my first live show on Saturday. What a waste of time and money. If that is what all live shows are like I don't know why anyone would bother. I kind of expected other hobbyist to to be you know, friendlier. Wrong. On the one side of me the only words that the lady said to me during the whole ten hours that I was there was "Do you want my extra chair" On the other side was this kid and her entourage(Mom, Dad and Grandmother) whom I was surprised to see there since the show packet clearly stated no children. And of course in the way of things, the kid was a spoiled brat who kept glaring at my half of the table where I had my meager show string laid out. Then when one of the vendors left the show early, her and her parents commandeered that whole table along with the half a table that they already had. I mean really, if they knew she needed a whole table why did they only pay for half?
My other big peeve of the day was one judge in particular who should not have been judging. She must have brought 300+ horses with her and she clearly couldn't manage them, seeing as she was late for every class she entered even the ones before the divisions that she was judging started. Meaning that every class she had horses in, which was most of them, and all the classes she was supposed to be judging was late. Not only that but she was extremely rude to the other judges, snapping at them when they were calling second and third warnings before closing classes for judging and giving final warnings to remove abandonded horses from past classes from the rings, but I also saw her shoving other showers out of her way and just being generally unpleasant.

 As for the actual showing of my horses it was pretty much a bust, only three of my guys that I got to show even placed ,with Lady A being the only one who did fairly well, taking a Reserve Champion in the Trad Other Draft Pure class.

and a fourth in Workmanship.

As for the rest they aren't even worth mentioning. I took eleven horses with me and because of the judge I mentioned before holding up the show with her own horses, I only got to show nine of mine before it got so late that I had to leave. The show was supposed to be over by 7pm, I left at 6 and there was going to be at least another hour till my last two horses classes would have been gotten to.

Needless to say I don't think I'll be doing that again anytime soon. Live and Learn, I think I'll stay in the studio from now on.