7/27/2022 BH3 Trail: July-us Caesar Trail
Tales from a Front Running Bastard
I arrived at the prelube, Worden Hall, to find Wiki at the bar. I sat down and got a fried chicken sandwich and a coke. A few others showed up. There was confusion from some regarding the start location. The start had changed in the days leading up to the hash, and the details had not fully propagated across all communication channels. Wiki insisted that there was no confusion (“There is no confusion.” -Wiki 7/27/2022). But my flawless logic, pointing out both the confused people on the messaging apps, and the people showing up at the bar saying they were confused (“Wait I’m confused” -Tacos On a Bridge, 7/27/2022, “I am also confused”- Just Caleb, 7/27/2022) prevailed, and Wiki went out and laid clarifying marks from the old start to the new start. Pack continued to filter in. The hares, Frosty the Fuckman and Wikipedophelia, left at a reasonable hour, followed soon by pack heading out to put their bags in Spunk’s trunk, and to do chalk talk. Some of us donned togas for the Julius Caesar themed trail.
At chalk talk, Fireball explained the day’s special marks - “Backstabs” in place of checkbacks, and “you’ve been backstabbeds” in place of YBFs. We introduced ourselves. Pack consisted of Blue Balls Matter, Holy Dumpster Fire, Sex the Final Frontier, Beeestiality B4 Boys, Full Frontal Fireball, [Transplant] Tacos on a Bridge, Wax on/Wax off, Visitor Wrong-Thong, Visitor Pink Penalty, Visitor Hickey, Just Caleb, Just Virgin Andrew, Triceratopped, Orgasm Famine, Just Grace, Visitor Sweetheart, Edward Sissyhands, DJ Gags Easy, Strap on/Strap off, Sketchy Ho, Just Jan, No Man on the Moon, Qatar Mile Queer, Willy Wonka and the Backdoor Factory (latecomer), Fischdick, Mr. Bean, Zanbon-me (latecomer), and myself Shits & Ladders.
We started trail looking for marks that would lead us either deeper into South Boston, or towards the rest of Boston. I checked the "rest of Boston" way, and found a one-and-out. Others found the correct trail into Southie. I eventually found myself near the front of pack, taking turns with Blue Balls and Famine as one or the other of us guessed the correct direction from checks. We meandered in a southeasterly direction through the grid network of roads in Southie.
At one point, pack found a telltale mark indicating that the hares were lost on their own trail. We stalled for a bit at this point, unable to find additional marks. Some detective work was required to uncover a mark hidden under a trashcan, before we proceeded.
Blue Balls and I again got to work finding the trail, but then I noticed some people playing basketball in a park, and needed to stop and tell them to crash the boards and play D. They were not hustling and everyone knows you can’t win a basketball game with that garbage. This set me back into the midst of pack considerably. The front runners found some marks, and ran more of what would soon make itself apparent as a long checkback (er backstab).
We eventually ended up circling half of the Dorchester Heights hill. There was a beer-near, then marks going steeply downhill, which I was 98% sure would be a checkback, but checked out anyway. It was of course a checkback, and the beer check was of course on top of the hill. Duh. Never give up the high ground.
From the beercheck, hashers were able to watch a beautiful sunset. The hares had provided an "Orange Julyus" drink which was deemed to be pretty tasty, along with the beer. I think we picked up a Wonka here.
The hares left and the pack followed. I don't remember a lot about the next leg. It was short. There was another checkback/backstab, or two, one of them might have involved another steep hill. Who is truly to say what happened out there? Anywhom, we soon arrived to...
Beercheck 2, at Joe Moakley Park. Joe Moakley was some dude. I dunno, look it up, maybe he's on Wikipedia. More beer and Orange Julyus for the pack. There was some impromptu singing and general merrimaking. ZanBone-Me joined us at beercheck 2 to imbibe. Again the hares left and again the pack followed.
We came through a playground (many went around), and skirted a baseball field and amphitheater before exiting Joe Schmo Park southeastwards towards the beach. I front-ran again, this time with Sex The Final Frontier. The general location of the on-in was apparent, but the exact route was TBD, so we watched the ground closely for marks. There were many true trail marks in close succession, zig-zagging us this way and that, and encouraging us to “send it” at full throttle. We finally saw the hares awaiting pack. Sex tried to race me, but he is weak from skipping track workouts, and lost. Go run some 400s bud.
For circle, we went down to the waterfront, with the waves lapping up and down [at] our... feet. We had comments on trail, a song from the hares, a collective song from the multiple visitors, a de-virginzing of a virgin who didn't know he was a virgin (courtesy of dementress Spunk). He made a goat-gasm noise, which we were unable to confirm the accuracy of, without the presence of Goat-Throat, and with Famine inexplicably missing from circle. FRB, FBI, DFL, yada, yada, yada... Accusations happened, We learned that one of the visitors had backslid for 12 years. Pack tried to shame him, but I encouraged kindness to someone who must surely be, like, super-old. Non-togas were accused. The few brave enough to swim in Boston Harbor attempted to accuse the rest of us, but we counter-accused them of being radioactive. Gags Easy commented that we'd all be jealous of the additional appendages they would be gaining due to the toxic exposure. There were honor down-downs for bag car, and for the RA bringing us nice weather. We also wished Mr. Bean well, as he is soon to return to his home planet.
Announcements included a Moon trail this Friday (Start at Cambridge Brewing Company @ 6:30), and the fact that Beantown trails exist and will continue to happen at their normal scheduled times (Sunday afternoons weekly). Further useful details on the Beantown trails were sparse.
We then sang religion.
Afterwards, some hashers went to the Hong Kong to get a piece, of scorpion bowls, presumably. Hopefully visitor Wrong-Thong went to the right-Kong.
Ok, I think I'm done here.
-Shits