Run Report #50: December 15, 2007

Report of Run #50: Saturday, December 15, 2007

Location: Between Baan Sai Muun and Baan Duu off Soi 5 near Wat Phra Tat Gaow

Hare: Well Oiled and Oiled Well

Thirty-one hashers showed up for our last hash of the year 2007. There were 20 males and 11 females. Nine were Thais, mostly female and the rest farang. Included in these figures are seven children and seven virgins.

All but the scribe showed up on time. At 3:30 pm the gang promptly climbed unto two itaems (local farm trucks) and headed slowly out along Soi 5 towards Baan Duu. It took some 15 minutes to travel 4 km but eventually the itaems arrived at their destination. The passengers disgorged and began to follow paper. Within ten minutes they arrived at the first check with four possible ways forward one of which was a harvested rice field. This was the most effective check. It kept our heroes searching at least ten minutes mainly in the rice field. Meanwhile your faithful correspond caught up.

The course mostly followed small farming trails mostly along the bottom of hills which bordered the valleys. Being a naturalist Well Oiled made sure we experienced a wide variety of flora especially bamboo which arched over and at places nearly choked off the route. Oileds’ brilliance showed most vividly in their innovative use of symbols. No ordinary ‘X’es for checks. The Oileds used ‘T’es and scattered paper in every direction sometimes beyond the 100 meter limit. False trails were sometimes marked by a firm line across the road, elsewhere the paper just petered out. Sometimes a line across the trail did not mean a false trail at all. Interpreting these symbols took almost as much imagination as went into their creation. FRB Doesn’t Matter Horn thought he was out in front when he arrived at the departure point at Soi 5. A half an hour later he was still by himself wondering where all the others had gone. Fortunately for him the A to B run ended further along Soi 5. Your faithful correspondent found him in a self-doubting mood as he returned when he returned to point A to pick up his car.

There was paper and chalk scattered along Soi 5 between points A and B which suggested that there had been some false starts in the trail laying process. Afterwards the Oileds confessed that they had almost divorced in the process of laying that trail. Well Oiled also declared that ‘sweeping” these hashers was like herding cats. Perhaps the abundance of forward paper trails had something to do with that.

The itaems brought the hashers back from point B to the Oileds’ house just as the sun was setting. Oiled Well had organized a fine buffet of BBQ chicken, somtom, spring rolls and sticky rice. A business circle then formed for its usual business: naming and shaming each other. The GM’s pretty daughter Mary became Boy Magnet. Swiss Peter shall be known hereafter as Doesn’t Matter Horn. Brussels Ron got the name Sprout. Sten and his consort became Stoned and Rolling respectively. MANipulator’s spouse, Andrew showed up for the first time in years. Someone claimed he looked like Sting for whom he was then named.

Hand Cock will hare the run in January. Loose Spoke will take on February.


Notes by Wirgin Bluce