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Run:- 1208. Date:- 15 May 2006.
Location:- Near Wat Yai
Hare:- Neil "Weedeater" Biggadike
Scribe:- Tom "MCH" SorensenYou thought it was gonna be the usual tour around Wat Sing Thong – but it wasn’t. You might have thought we were heading to the Wat Yai area – but we weren’t. With the mis-directions being overly complicated, as it could only have been written by a teacher, only Hashers with an IQ over average Mensa standard, managed to gather in time at this new take off spot. Needless to say only a relative small group had gathered at the time of 17.30. In fact the honourable Grand Master only blew his whistle 17.36 to hear Hare Weedeater warn about a crossing of a “carriageway” only minutes from the start. What he actually tried to tell us: “you will soon risk your life when you have to find your way across this 8-lane highway to Nakon Nowhere, with traffic as on Rama IV outside Lumpini Boxing Stadium on a Friday night with cars speeding over 100K an hour”.
The pack was slow to get moving, instead enjoying this peaceful green spot with palm trees, a bit of jungle and rice paddies. I suspect it is only a matter of years and this area will succumb to the pressure of motorways and moobaan’s. Or were the usual FRB’s encouraging the weaker sex of the BMH3 to get in front, hoping this would slow or stop the traffic which the Hare warned us about? Anyway, off we went for a loop around an empty rice paddy just to return to the tarmac, then a hundred meters left and it was into a nice small path that lead us straight up to the 8-lane highway. I do believe all Hashers managed to cross it safely. Once on the other side we went a little left and then into the bushes and rice paddies again, actually what was by now already a harvested rice paddy. So dry you could run on it. We ran kind of left and further away from the 8-lane highway, but eventually started to turn left and again heading back to home. But it wasn’t just straight sailing…
About a click before we hit the highway, we ran out of paper. We must have spent 15 to 20 minutes checking forward, backwards and sideways and still didn’t come up with the white paper. In fact where we came out of the bushes we should have turned left, around a corner and through a gate that would have taken us back to the crossing. Hares claimed later that the gate to heaven and back had been closed. Yeah yeah.
So without paper but hearing the traffic in front of us, most chose in small groups to trot towards the on-in, through the traffic, with some going back to the out-trail, others heading for Wat Sing Thong and then backwards, some just straight through the bushes where paper again appeared. You see, all ways lead to Rome and Biggadike’s backgarden.
The writer fled the scene before the circle was called and is unable to report from the happenings. However, I could imagine that comments to the Hares would have been: “not enough cars on the 8-lane highway”. Or “too much paper”. Nominations for Prick-of-the-Week must have gone to Jumpstart as she was heard saying: “I love Monday H3 but not than big thing between the legs”. Not sure if she was referring to the much loved teddy-bear-like prick or was it something that had scared her during Hashers showering?
Great run from a nice area, thanks to Hare Weedeater and Co-hare No Meat. Onon to next week.
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On Monday 15 May we had 16 Harriers, 6 Harriettes, 2 new boots and 1 visitor, total = 25. Welcome to new boots Frederick Ohm and Stefan "Wet Dream 2" Cassel.
