Bangkok Monday Hash House Harriers

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Run: 1583
Date: 22 July 2013
Location: Homestay, Outer Ring Road (East)
Hares: Eat me and 4x2
Scribe: Anonymous

Being a 'dry' public holiday and following on from the Siam Sunday Hash outstation run in Siam Reap, the pack included a number of visitors and occasional runners, but a number of regulars were missing from the run. It is suspected that at least one of the absent regulars is a closet monarchist and couldn't leave his TV set until the new heir to the UK throne saw the light of the paparazzi flashguns in London. His official excuse was that he was 'suffering from a cold'. Returning old timers included Gringo, Bang Cock, Spank Me and Whining Wino.

Come 5:30 our GM was on hand to try to call the unruly pack to order, and the hare and co-hare explained that besides the normal checks the paper would occasionally run out without any special marking. When that happens we were to return along the trail and look for where the real trail branched off. As you can see from the Google Earth image of the trail this tactic was very successful. It was used twice on the klong paths in the first five minutes of the run, frustrating the FRBs. As if this wasn't enough, the first real check took about ten minutes for the pack to solve. The problem here was that being an area we have run in before people thought they knew which direction the trail would take, whereas in fact it was quite a simple back check in an unexpected direction.

The trail soon took us off the concrete onto a muddy track, and it wasn't long before we crossed the road leading up to the unfinished bridge. The trail roughly followed klongs until we reached a check at a crossroads. This check also took a long time to solve, with Legiron and GM No No taking a false trail down an overgrown klong path which lead into someone's back garden. The group of Hashers your scribe was with then looked on the other side of the klong and discovered another false trail. Eventually we found the real trail, which from then on was fairly easy to follow. It was an 'Unseen Thailand' trail taking us through a construction workers camp, and then along a track of clinging mud where our shoes got heavier and heavier as more and more mud stuck to them.

Eventually the trail took us through the house of a Thai who wasn't very pleased at the Hashers dropping mud off their shoes all over their property, and out onto a klong path. After another km or so your scribe was happy to see the unfinished bridge as it meant we were nearly home.

After social drinking a lively circle was presided over first by GM No No and then RA Noriega. Noriega fulfilled his duties as 'Le Pimp' by finding a partner for Sizzler – the 'Perpetual Visitor', Carl T. Sizzler was truly delighted at having such a desirable new gik.

There were five nominations for Prick of the Weak, but the usual democratic process was dispensed with as soon as the Perpetual Visitor commented that he was bound to win it. Not wanting to disappoint him he was declared the winner. There was no appendage or yard of ale this week, but instead a plastic jug of beer was substituted. PV made a good start downing about half of its not inconsiderable volume in a few seconds, but then seemed to run into trouble and had to retreat rapidly from the circle (to the relief of all of us) and was seen being nursed by Noriega for the rest of the circle.

The On On On was at the adjacent Homestay Restaurant.

OnOn.