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Bangkok Monday Hash House Harriers
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Run:- 1322 Date:- 21July 2008.
Location:- Junction of Suksawat and the South China Sea
Hares:- Pussy Virus and Thebathtian
Scribe:- MaverickThis week’s run was at a new location for BMH3 – right at the southern end of Suksawat Road. Because misdirections included a 17km drive along Suksawat Road – an unknown quantity – I set off for the run quite early. Traffic on Suksawat flowed smoothly (by Bangkok standards) and I was at the start with 30 minutes to spare. This was unfortunate for me, as it gave the default scribe (Love Canal) time to persuade me to do this write-up, and it is unfortunate for you as you now have to read this drivel. No Meat passed the time by examining peoples hands and declaring their sexuality depending on the relative length of the fingers (or was this really just a diversion, and was she really looking for limp wrists?). After getting bored with this she boldly declared “I need a woman!” – obviously there is no need to examine her hand.
There was no sign of the hare, but Bogdiver appeared to have inside information as he declared it would be a boat from A to B, run from B to C and boat back from C to A. As 5:30 approached the pack was quite small, with no senior members of the mis-management committee (or the hare) present, and a number or regulars such as The Tickler and Hater Peacox missing. No Morgans were present, but this wasn’t surprising as one was en route back from Nong Khai and the other one is a habitual latecomer. RA Bruised Willy reluctantly took up the mantle and called On On, and the pack set off along the road where No Meat had found paper (so much for the inside information!).
After one hundred metres or so we turned in off the road and after solving a check in a small mooban were running along the dykes around shrimp ponds. The going was fairly difficult, but would have been a whole lot more difficult if it had rained in the preceding 24 hours. The trail was cleverly laid with checks and false trails to keep FRBs like No Meat and Dunkin Donut with the rest of the pack. There was one stretch of freshly laid mud, and while most of the pack picked their way round it Bad Boy Bubby decided to plough straight through it and ended up having to be pulled out of the mire by fellow hashers. His legs below the knees were coated in stinking black mud (Bad Boy Bubby later wisely decided to get a bus home rather than stink out anyone’s car).
It wasn’t long after this incident that 4x2 was spotted running towards us, and then rapidly turning round. He revealed that he had arrived late and was running the trail in reverse from ‘B’. After a few more kms running around the shrimp ponds we eventually had the luxury of a concrete walkway leading to a klong bridge and a wat where the hares (Pussy Virus and Thebathtian), water, beer and a boat awaited us to take us back to ‘A’. On the cruise back to the start the hares were amidships, so those of us near the stern were treated to smoke from the hares’ expensive cigars.
Social drinking ensued while celebrity chef Normal Ramsay slaved in her kitchen preparing gourmet nibbles for us. The usual miscreants left before the circle – No Meat and Weedeater, and uncharacteristically Bad Boy Bubby haled a passing bus and jumped on – perhaps ashamed of the stink. Eventually a circle was called and the usual hares, returners, new boots, visitors etc. were called in for down downs. Bruised Willy entered the circle as RA, and after a short session tried to hand back to the stand-in GM before holding the PoW election. He then tried to subvert the democratic process by asking if he could just appoint he PoW, but of course the pack would have none of this. During the nomination process for PoW an inconvenient truth came to light – what nibblers had thought was rather tasty chicken was in fact rather tasty rat, brought along by Mrs. 4x2. This resulted in all the other contestants gracefully retiring, and the appendage being awarded unanimously to 4x2.
At the end of the circle the hares announced that they’d ordered food for 20 at the restaurant, and that it would just cost B200. However, on this occasion I wasn’t able to stay for the OnOnOn.
OnOn to the Unico Golf Course
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On Monday 21 July we had 15 Harriers, 4 Harriettes, 0 new boots and 0 visitors, total = 19. Returners included John McBirnie, Marc Lavoie, Maarten Brusselers, Kevin McGaffey, Don Reeves and Ichimura.
