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Bangkok Monday Hash House Harriers
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Run:- 1312 Date:- 12 May 2008.
Location:- Tara Roung Rom Restaurant, Pakkret
Hare:- Bullet
Scribe:- No Good BoyoApparently, in ages past there was a book published (now sadly out of print) which was titled “80 places to visit in Thailand before your soul gets sucked into the sky”. I found a copy recently and such was my hunger for knowledge, having spent 14 nights looking at the yellow canvas of the inside of a tent in Nepal, I was keen to delve into this literary work. I was surprised as you might be, that Wat Toei was among the eighty dream places to visit!!
I can hear the reader groan already. What the eff has this got to do with Bob Boulter’s run on Monday? Well, it has in this way. Wat Toei seems to have become a ‘Mecca’ or more appropriate perhaps a ‘Lumbhini” for bikers and hashers. If you stand on a Sunday at the Ubosoth close to the Wat you will see groups of farang cyclists mainly from that farang slum in Nichada Thani, grouped together for safety while cycling away from the citadel that is their home. If you stood outside the Wat last Wednesday and indeed on the following Saturday, you would have also seen groups of hashers running by. On Wednesday it was a smallish group of Harriettes following the occasional paper dropped by “Frisky’. And on the Saturday a hale and hearty bunch of gentleman gathered to get the boat to Wat Yai and run their way back to Wat Toei
Fortunately fears of masses of paper were not realized. If John Lukens had set the Harriettes run, then surely the whole area would have been littered with the stuff (yes mate I still remember the stuff you spread over Wat Khae Nae two days before my Monday run, many moons ago – I spent a day picking it all up. But fortunately it was in large lumps!!) But of course we could rely on Frisky to drop very little.
And so we come to today’s run – close to Wat Toei, yet again. Before the run many an interesting conversation was gleaned, from how far can you ejaculate when in a tent at over 5,000 metres (bad boy bubby) and I have something special for you and me after the run (Bog to a very pleased Hash Hash). Note: I must bring my dirty postcards next week!
Bullett having prior knowledge from the previous Wednesday and prior knowledge from the Saturday run, being the co-hare with the Bug, was able to create a run with much less confusion than one would have thought. Heavy rains had washed out the occasional chalk marks from the Harriettes run, and the Saturday’s blue paper was added to to create a rather pleasant run of nearly 8kms. Shame about the rain which made loads of shiggy underfoot. Shame about the last check at Wat Kung Thong which fucked up most of the pack and especially Khun Suteeve who was last seen crossing over the two carriageways of speeding vehicles back to where he came from. Shame about Frisky who had her head down and was non-communicative – she was on her personal mission. Me with prior knowledge from Saturday’s run, guided her passed Wat Sing Thong and along the khlong to Wat Bang Chak and home. I thought that with just two of us running up front she would have been polite and stayed together, but no, head down she was off on her private mission, oblivious to motor cycles trying to pass on khlong paths. Of course, it could be the dreaded BO. But I thought that unlike just two of our hashers (neither on this run) I was free of this plague!!
Back at the start LC, who was hash guest hare, kept repeating that he was pissed. I thought this was odd because one only admitted to this sort of state when in school? I asked LC if he had drunk more than two bottles of beer, at which point, according to last week’s scribe, Tickler, he became incoherent. LC admitted to at least four bottles, but to my Celtic brain he was making perfect sense and enunciating rather well. I was left with the thought that there really was a massive linguistic gap between the people from the islands of Great Britain and those across the Atlantic who speak with a rather different tongue. The ‘land free’ of many attributes that others seem to have… Okay, say this after me, quickly …” the Leith police dismisseth us”.
In business terms, ‘early risers’ and ‘sunrise industries’ indicate guys and companies with foresight and guts to get into a market early. However, we seem to have a hash phenomenon which might be described as “early leavers” or “sunset hashers”. I noticed at least three cars all leaving as I was toweling down. Is there something that I am missing at home - or perhaps elsewhere?? As Prince William said after his recent service in Afghanistan “no names no effing pack drill mate”.
In the absence of the GM, Tickler as JM eventually called a circle. We did not demur that he was not wearing a shirt (ladies, he had one across his broad shoulders!). Pace Genghis!
Suteeve, Frisky and Tuk got called in for a private circle. So did those who benefited from the National Health Service in UK. Hash Hash reminded the circle of the 5F fund. Franks and Friskys fucking fund for Burma. Frisky was the first to donate. But in the end a weak field for POW was overwhelmed by nominations for Andrew ‘No No’ Macpherson, who according to Sego was wearing an accoutrement much smaller than that she had previously seen on Scotsmen!!! Where the hell has she been – Glasgow on a weekend??
We retired late to a delightful upstairs dining room and looked at the changing lights illuminating Rama 1V Bridge. Eventually, I said to Bullet, I have to go home to polish off my half bottle of Chilean wine courtesy of Kim Chaubert, left from last night. Bullet was crestfallen telling me that he thought that he had already finished his bottle of wine last night and so he had absolutely nothing to go home to. As an emotional man, I felt some guilt. But just an hour later I had a call from a delighted Bullett who said that he had found a half bottle of Chateau Neuf du Pape at home.
Surely, such small events are pleasant evenings made of… hick… On On to Deli-Home, Bang Yai. Nogood boyo
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On Monday 12 May we had 20 Harriers, 9 Harriettes, 0 new boots and 1 visitor, total = 30. Welcome back to returners Bob Boulter and Lem Morgan.
