Run #8 – A Fool’s Errand - Saturday, April 1, 2006

Hare: Just Jim

Acting GM: Shadow

Location: Sports Gardens Café, Iroquois Park Sports Complex, Whitby

 

It was a cold windy day and Just Jim had laid his first trail – without adult supervision – so everyone was a bit nervous. Shadow dragged us out of the warm bar to form a circle. You knew it was an off day when Prince Valium arrived in a motorized vehicle in his own town. Shadow introduced the four new boots and gave them some extra help during the chalk talk – hopefully they’ll return again some day.

 

The trail started along an open stretch of road and we were all buffeted by the arctic winds. Finally we turned south into a suburban neighborhood and began to warm up a bit. At least the trail was well marked. There was a good mix of streets and grassy fields, and we found our way to something new – a cookie check (bag of cookies hung in a tree). A bit hokey but we were all cold and hungry so they were devoured quickly. Just Jim then sent us backtracking for quite a ways and then down along Lake Ontario and the old Whitby Psychiatric property (lots of memories there for many of us I’m sure). We ended up in a parking lot, a trunk opened, and beverages were plentiful – we had reached the beer check and the beer wasn’t frozen! Some frigid hashers headed back to the on in while the rest of us quenched more beverages (it’s free at the beer check after all). That’s when it happened, and no one was surprised – Zig Zag appeared (although we don’t know how he found his way after the trail basically died where we had the cookie check – he always seems to find his way).

 

So back north up Gordon Street we went to get back to the Sports Gardens Café and the circle.

 

Shadow apportioned an appropriate quantity of down-downs:

·         Just Jim for a short trail on a cold day;

·         The four new boots (Just Marc, Just Sandra, Just Adam, Just Lex – likely name that) plus Kazoo and Trix R 4 Pricks for being new to hashing (the latter two for their first Durham hash);

·         Johnny Cockring and Stuporman for inviting the new boots;

·         Zig Zag for being perennially late;

·         Kazoo and Aims Low for shortcutting with strollers;

·         Aims Low and Cums On Demand for wearing hare shirts;

·         Just Marc and COD for marking their own trails (urination on trail);

·         Kazoo, Shadow and Bumming A Fag for being way off trail with a stroller;

·         Johnny Cockring and Just Adam for being lawyers (that’s plenty reason);

Just Jim got his wish (sort of) and was anointed with the hash name of Swiney Whiney for his aversion to all things hoggish, especially his trepidation at drinking from the Durham sacred vessel. He also gets the honour of the first person named in Durham.

 

And just to top things off, Swiny Whiney and Just Lex got down-downs for sporting new shoes. Just Lex drank from the vessel, but Swiny Whiney drank from his shoe (he should have known better, and he doesn’t like the vessed anyway).