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I pulled off a gag I have wanted to do for a long time tonight. I turned up at this hash incognito. The back story is, I founded this hash 30 years ago this month (and it has been 21 years since I last ran a trail with them). Five months ago while I was in Bangkok, I was contacted by the current GM with an invitation to hare this event . . . of course I said YES, would love to. So while I am in Bangkok, I had patches made celebrating the 30th anniversary. Fast forward 3-4 months and I have not heard anything more from the GM, and I see that the scheduled date has moved back a couple weeks into August. No mention of me haring, and no contact of the change. The new dates were not good for my schedule and I could not make it.

Doing my thing, and traveling around, I finally decide what the heck, I have these patches so I’m going to show up anyway (Outerhash Style). I thought wouldn’t it be funny if I just showed up as a visitor, and ran along and observed the hash, using one of my “other” hash names at the start (Pablo P-Hash-Oh). I get to the start, introduce myself, and the gag worked out perfectly, no one knew me. We run trail, go through circle, and although I was called out before the trail as a visitor, I was never recognized as a visitor in the circle. So just before the closing song, I did a pint-of-lager and asked to address the circle (along with singing several fun songs).

Walking into the circle, I explained that I would like to tell a story . . . about how I told a little fib at the start about being here for the first time. I started off telling them that 5 months ago, I had been extended an invitation to hare this 30th anniversary trail, and I accepted, and walked around the circle passing out the patches. Nobody really knew what to say, other than uggg . . . thanks, and a bit of shock. We had several good laughs, and I got a picture with the current GM. Gag was successful. Looking forward to trails with the Ft. Eustis H3 and Tidewater H3 this weekend, that I ran with back in the early 90s.

Fun times on the hash. Giving a shout out to any old time Tidewater & Ft Eustis hashers to come out this weekend for some old time fun.Read more