Is it safe to talk about horse racing at work?

[Triptych]

I remember when a Salesman came round to measure us up for some Double Glazing and he saw all my Desert Orchid pictures around the kitchen, he started talking to me about horse racing and how his daughter was a big fan of Dessie.
He eventually got his sale and a few years later I find myself working, part time, for the company at the Showsite. Now he comes in for coffee and we chat horses even though he’s more of a footy fan it’s nice to have someone at work that appreciates racing, the rest as I said earlier think I’m a bit nuts and I have to make sure I delete the history on the computer before I go home as TRF, RP and ATR come up in the searches on a regular basis.
Jac

Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...

[Burroughhill]

I work with women, so my love of all sport in general goes down like a lead balloon. They titter at me and think I’m weird. It’s not improved by my love of heavy metal music…..

[Gingertipster]

I work with women, so my love of all sport in general goes down like a lead balloon. They titter at me and think I’m weird. It’s not improved by my love of heavy metal music…..

Win some, lose some, it’s all the same to me.

Value Is Everything

[Drone]

I don’t like speaking to anybody about racing who is not into racing at all. It is a pointless and irritating exercise.

Joe public know absolutely nothing about the sport in reality. You try talking to someone about it and you get comments like "it’s cruel", "the bookie always wins", "it’s all fixed" etc etc.

I too avoid speaking to the uninitiated about racing and most certainly betting, though don’t sneer at them for believing the eternal untruths; that’s the way I like it and want it to remain, as knowing odd-man-out in an unknowing crowd is smugly comforting

On the too, too numerous occasions I’ve been forced into a corner by some evangelising Formula 1/Football/Golf afficionado rattling on about Tyre Changes/4-4-2/Sand Wedges I feel an overwhelming compulsion to either curl up and die or go out fighting Cassidy & Sundance-style; so it would be hypocritical of me to return the discourtesy by rattling on about the complexities of Racing to the uninterested

I’m reasonably content to talk about racing and betting with those who share the bug, though much prefer doing so virtually on the anonymous ‘net; but racing pals, like drinking pals are those who are stumbled across for fleeting moments of inconsequential banter and are not my true friends: those, like my family, have no interest and they’ve long regarded me as strange/eccentric/weird/daft/stupid/dodgy – which may well be true – so I make every effort not to mention racing and particularly betting when in their company, and if pressed hate doing so anyway

In truth R’n’B has always been a private passion – another little world of my own – remote, cocooned, insular that I have no wish to share with anyone

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