Dragons Anniversary -100 Runs

The Shanghai DD held their anniversary Hash Run at

With Hares Double Dutch Mountain, Ban the Cock and a mystery Hare

The Suzhou hashers gathered at the Blue Marlin for what promised to be a great run. Tiny Tim was held back from the event by a last minute decision by his boss that Tiny’s  presence in Nantong was necessary that day (when WILL Tiny Tim ever learn to stand up to his boss there-  Enquiring mind want to know.) In any case, his jovial presence and songs on trail were missed by all. LTTB also kept away from the Hash and gave us some lame excuse about some sort of soreness in his leg!  We all know that if he could just manage to keep himself away from the e-bike ladies and stray soccer balls he would be a lot better off!

Held in our backyard, just outside of the ancient water town Zhouzhuang, we all expected a flat run with lots of ponds, lakes and canals, and we were not disappointed!  This was our first run as hosts of the Shanghai Drunken Dragons and despite the extra-tight Shanghai passport and security check on the way (though we were actually still pretty far out of Shanghai proper!) we arrived on the scene right on time. Turnout was far better than had been hoped and with the 16 Suzhou Hashers included, there was a total of over 100 hashers on hand for the Drunken Dragons 100^th anniversary.

The run took us through village and dale, and as we wove through picturesque rice paddies we noticed a certain propensity of the Dragons to form traffic jams at checkpoints. At first we thought these were due to narrow waterway crossing and pathways with tricky footing, but we soon realized that the Dragons’ FRBs, in true Hash form, were truly non-competitive. It was wonderful to see how they all politely waited for one another and each let the other go first at the checkpoints while the remainder of the group stood patiently in line so as not to crowd anyone and there they waited for the On-On! call before proceeding. Suzhou FRB Hashers can only aspire to such manners, as the Suzhou trail setting system doesn’t allow for such niceties. 

At the end of the trail we all noticed the On Boat! mark, manned by the Drunken Dragons; own Double Dutch Mountain, who had unfortunately been put out of commission by a nasty rusty nail while setting the trail. She shepherded the arriving Hashers first to the beer cooler for suitable refreshments and then onto the waiting traditional Chinese rafts and not-so-traditional, but equally functional kayaks to paddle across the pond to the end of the trail. Galia, being a virgin Suzhou hasher was given priority as one of the first to cross and was able to sit and munch on the sandwich she had brought along while waiting for the others to cross. Hoof ‘N Mouth, being an experienced hasher on loan to the Suzhou H3 from the Dayton USA H3, was herded onto one of the traditional rafts, meant to carry up to 5 people. However, as it was determined that there were only girls on her raft, 8 other Hashers plus the pole-man were put on board with poor Hoof. This proved to all of their detriment, as she and her fellow female hashers tried to keep their feet dry to no avail, and just barely escaped from a cold swim across the lake!

Everyone having made it safely across the lake, we proceeded to the Circle. Goldilocks, the GM of the Drunken Dragons, was fully aware of the difficulty of the task at hand and the inability of his Shanghai Hashers to handle the job properly. Therefore, he decided that the only way to keep a Circle of over 100 Hashers running smoothly was to have the Suzhou GM, MasterKater, serve as beer bitch for the event. MasterKater then put on the ceremonial phallic apron used by the Drunken Dragons for serving beer and proceeded to ensure that everyone had ample cold beer throughout the proceedings. Several Suzhou Hashers were shocked by the lack of respect shown to their GM, but apparently feared the thought of having to wear the apron themselves so much that they were unable to challenge Goldilocks. The Dragons’ own  Ban the Cock and the GM of the Taiping Hash, JohnnyWad, however, both assisted MasterKater in keeping the beer flowing and the Circle went off without mishap. MasterKater did, however, bring Goldilocks to task at the end of the Circle for showing such a lack of respect to a fellow GM, particularly one who had enabled his Dragons to meet the historic number of over 100 Hashers at a 100^th anniversary Hash. Goldilocks tried to get out of it by filling a small paper cup with beer for his down-down, but MasterKater was having none of that and forced him to take a fresh full bottle of Tsingtao for the punishment round. Duly chastised, Goldilocks then led the Circle in singing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and with that everyone went off to the adjoining restaurant for the Bash. Very good food, very good company and an excellent time was had by all. The bus ride home was a bit rowdy and some of the newer Hashers may have been shocked by the shouting and singing, but Zorbaroo was the model of composure as he sent text messages (we assume to Karen) the whole way home, and at least KingPiss didn’t get the chance to play his Finnish disco CDs, a fact for which we all should be grateful! On-on to the next Run!