Most horse riders don’t do this.

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Driving on the incorrect side of the road is difficult enough, but throw in an idiot horse rider and it could spell disaster. On a country road yesterday I came round a bend and about 50 yards in front of me (metres since we are in France) behold the hind quarters of a horse. I slowed down not wanting to spook the horse and cause mayhem and injury, and, with caution and circumspection, approached, giving horse and rider as wide a berth as possible. But the horse kept wandering this way and that making things quite impossible. The rider had her hatted head lowered and didn’t appear to notice me. When I eventually manoeuvred my way alongside the hefty beast I saw what the problem was and it wasn’t the horse. The young girl riding the horse had her head and both hands involved in texting on her phone. Idiot.