My Treat to Me

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I had to meet my new landlord today so I decided to pop into the local Greenhawk.  I had a gift certificate, and so I decided to buy Jane Savoie's Dressage 101 as per L. William's suggestion on one of my last posts.  I had been thinking about it before actually and decided now was the best time.

I meant to save my gift certificate for the new breeches I want.  I am in the market for a comfy pair of breeches but I have few options in my little neck of the woods.  I know I've talked about this before in an earlier post, but I am not having a lot of luck.  I'm currently angry at pretty much every major tack shop in North America.  To make a long story short, I want to try a pair of the Tailored Sportsman Trophy Hunter breeches.  They look comfy.  People seem to like them.  I want to be comfy.

So I tried to order them from Greenhawk.  But they only had one colour in stock in my size.  Normally I'm not such a princess, but it's really not a flattering colour.  They're not getting new stock in until July - and I don't mean "they" as in little old Greenhawk, Atlantic Canada.  I mean Greenhawk's main warehouse for all of Canada.  Can I just say now that it seems really impractical to wait to bring in new stock in July when the shows start in May?  Anyway, to special order them in would cost me over $250 (when they are normally less than $180).

There's a little tack shop a few hours from me so I decided to give her a call.  She told me that no one else in Canada stocks these breeches because Greenhawk pretty much has the monopoly on them.  So that option is out (as is mostly everything in my country).

Smartpak doesn't deliver to Canada, of course.  So I emailed Dover.  You need to get a special rate from them for shipping to Canada.  I asked them how much it would cost to send me two pairs of breeches (just because I figured a larger order might help with the shipping).  They said $120.  In shipping.  Not including the cost of the breeches or the tax.  And let's not forget, I don't even know if they'll fit because I have never tried them on before.  That's outrageous!  The cost of shipping is almost as much as the cost of the damn breeches.

So now I'm just spiteful.

My current plan: ride naked.