When you put the cart ahead of the horse, you:
                        Copyright 1996 by Dave Laird

	 1. Must want to go backwards, not that you have any choice, anymore. 
	 
	 2. Generally don't smell the aroma of fresh horse manure unless you
	 attend a political rally by mistake. 
	 
	 3. Get a clear unobstructed view without a horse's ass in the way,
	 unless you turn the television to the wrong channel. 
	 
	 4. Have a hard time telling the horse where you want to go. 
	 
	 5. Since you are no longer in control, more often than not, the wagon
	 stops at every other pile of hay and you often take unexpected detours
	 through alfalfa fields along the road. 
	 
	 6. Unless you have a strong tail wind <snort!>, you never suffer from
	 those deadly horse farts. 
	 
	 7. Some mornings you can't get out of the barn no matter what you do.
	 
	 8. One improvement-- you've set the horse flies behind you.


[Excerpts from "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Horse Manure" by
Homer Pheeder, Copyright 1990]