Madison Hash House Harriers

May 2, 2009

HASH HISTORY - HASH RUN #1655 - Dos de Mayo Multicultural Run

Reported by Me Expone
Beautiful weather! Large turn-out! Coincidence? I bet the two are related! This run featured large numbers of new boots and a few seldom seens from everywhere. Pre-run instructions had to be given in three languages. Orjazzm brought her sister, Mayu, who arrived from Japan just that morning. ShowMe brought her (born in the USA) Latino friend, just Sara. There was a big group of male new boots: Tom, Dick, Harry, Larry and Moe (or something like that) and their friend from Sweden, Just Sven, along with seldom seens Can't Come Enough, Beats It Red and Cums and Goes. Finally, as the clock crept past 5:00 pm, enough regular Hashers arrived to outnumber the new boots. Along the way, we picked up two more new boots: One female jogger joined us and Just Etsuku, a friend of Ah's from Japan, was riding in the beer check van. In the end, there were about 50 people in the pack with regular hashers still out-numbering the NewBoots by a small margin. Since it was Dos de Mayo, two Hashers took the hint and wore costumes appropriate for Cinco de Mayo: Dribbs and Show Me. In fact Show Me's costume and behavior caused a new hash rule to be instituted to read thusly: Whenever a Hasher wears a costume to a run, that Hasher must actually wear or carry the costume and not pawn it off onto others to wear or carry. Both Mr Rhythm and Lorena Carrot were cajoled into bearing the heavy load of Showme's large and hard sombrero and hot serape. The run started at Maple Bluff beach and headed immediately into the Maple Bluff Country Club where the FRBs found a long backcheck. From there the trail wound through many Maple bluff streets before heading down the long stretch of road to Warner Beach and the first beer check. After the BC the route continued onto and over a high railroad bed before winding through a dense thicket of woods around Warner Pond to a second beer check. The trail then headed down an impossibly steeeeeep embankment and back to the railroad tracks. After that, we found ourselves entering the back yard of our host, Just Pam, where LL Loosey and Mrs. Can't Come Enough had prepared an outstanding spread of Mexican food including black beans and chicken mole. Ceremonies were so chaotic and loud that no one is sure what happened. Just Jennifer was named SECOND CUMMING, the Hares Ah Shit, Heavy Petting and Feces Peeces were honored appropriately as were all the new boots and seldom seens along with two wanna-be Hasher neighbors who joined the party (Yeay! More new boots!)