Bangkok Harriettes #2276

Just your average day here in Bangkok during the rainy season. Trail starts at 1730, but at 1500, while the hare is setting trail . . . it starts to pour down hard. Fast forward to 1730, it has stopped raining, but the trail is in question. Off we go in search of . . . and for the first 1-2 kms all is well, but then it starts to get hinky. The pack is running all over, and finding little trail for their efforts.

At this point, I have done the Star Trek motto . . . boldly going where no one has gone before . . . and just running around in hope of finding something. Well, after the trail fade at 2 kms, I have ranged my way back around until I run into 4x2 coming in the opposite direction. He tells me there are no marks back where he came from, so I turn around and head in another direction. Well, getting back to the main road, I am at a cross walk waiting for the traffic to die down, and when it does, I start crossing. I see two motoscooters coming along, and they are crossing behind me, so as I get to the middle of the street I look left for oncoming traffic to finish the cross. Just as I do that, WHAM . . . I get smacked on my right side by a motoscooter. He was not going too fast, so the Bastard must have just pulled out from a side street, and ran right into me. I was shocked more than injured . . . so hobbled on across the street to get out of traffic . . . then the little MF just takes off. I was not seriously injured, and went on to run a couple kms more just to loosen it up . . . but I guess I’ll have a nice charlie horse and a bruise in the morning.

The rest of the trail was insignificant, I ran around for a bit and then turned back to the start. As fate would have it, in circle . . . they all made fun of the fact that I was almost killed in the streets of Bangkok, but since I was still alive, I deserved the TITS OF THE WEEK award. Thanks a lot, NOT. 😊

After that, it was off to dinner and more good times. Now back home, I have showered up and poured my self a tall Whiskey and Cola to deaden the pain. We’ll see how it looks in the morning. I am just so happy I have lived through all these close calls and come out none the worse from each. Thanks you Torch Bennett for looking over me on trail. On On.Read more