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Saturday, January 8, 2005 - Visitors In The House

Man, oh man this was a banner hash for the ChooChooH3. Why? Well first of all, excluding the hare we had a crapload of hashers, and on top of that, we had visitors - real live visitors (and this time it wasn't the cops - heh)! Thanks to Captain Snatch and Corrigan for coming out from the Music City H3 (www.mch3.com) and thanks to Operation Lost Cause for representing Huntsville's hash club, Rocket Shitty H3 (www.rocketshitty.com). Not only did they come out, run the course and put up with ReRun's crazy 23-minute long chalk and shiggy explanation (seriously, even drum solos of drugged-out rock bands don't last that long), but they came bearing gifts - the hashers from MCH3 passed out "On On" beer openers and Lost Cause passed out money!

Hashers met on Fort Wood Street in the "large" five-spot parking lot of a "very important" business and despite a run-in with Groundskeeper Willie (who didn't think it was acceptable for those darned kids to be putting flower and chalk on the ground and gave them a stern talking-to), ReRun took off, giving himself an 8 minute head start. Hashers and family walkers (man, just how long is Shiggy Mama gonna be pregnant?) left and followed ReRun down through Fort Wood, across 3rd street and up into the Erlanger parking garage (and a big check-back 6), around the back of Erlanger and past Siskin Hospital to the very secret and cool tunnel under 3rd Street between CSAS and the County Health Center, through part of UTC, down McCallie, out into the hood (word), back up to Memorial Auditorium then past Chattanooga Billiards (were many thought the halfway spot was - ReRun is so tricky), past the courthouse and jail (Just Pete said hello to a lot of his customers there) and finally to the halfway spot at Chili's, were all enjoyed two-for-one beer - after all, Chili's happy hour is from 6am to 2am every day.

In this hash ReRun tried something new - hiding a card that said the word "PRIZE" on the run, one in the first half and one in the second. The plan was that whoever found it would win a prize - ReRun is deep like that. Anyway, no one found the one on the first half - maybe that's because Smart ReRun taped it to the bright reflective metallic side of Siskin. Anyway, ReRun reminded everyone to keep their eyes open on the second half, but it seems no one really tried, because it was clearly taped on the 12th floor window of the gold BlueCross building. Ok, that's an exaggeration - it was on the blue awning on Market Street outside one of the BlueCross buildings, but with the hashers running with their heads down looking for shiggy, no one saw it. Nice try ReRun.

After another 8 minute head start from Chili's, the trail went south on Market to about 9th Street, then cut over towards Broad, around a church and up to the YMCA parking lot. Here is where everything fell apart for ReRun - he didn't know there wasn't an outlet at the back of the Y, and he really painted himself into a corner. After a small tantrum, ReRun began his stealthy exit from the Y... and saw hashers coming down the road towards him. Being the ever-serious hare, ReRun hit the deck... and accidentally fell under a chain link fence, cutting his left leg pretty well (in case you forgot, ReRun is not smart - read his bio on the Members page). By some stroke of luck he got out from under the fence and got out of the Y's parking lot and up into the garage across from Chestnut Towers. Hashers could have started following the trail of blood, but ReRun kept throwing shiggy anyway for the remainder of the hash, which was towards the river on Broad, over to Market under the Bijou, past Fridays and up 1st Street, through the construction on the Provident side of Walnut Street Bridge to end in the infamous doctor's parking lot.

Another thing ReRun tried was having all hashers pick a card from a deck of cards before the run and keep the card with them during the entire run - Captain Fro kept his safely tucked away in his Pikachu purse. At the end someone picked a color and whoever had that color had to do a down-down shot of Jager while those with the other color got to laugh at everyone else. The circle was had where the experienced hashers taught ChooChooH3 how to really sing songs (collectively, ChooChooH3 is very sorry they did not bring a video camera to recird the pro's rendition of Swing Low).

Overall everyone said good trail, and then they seriously busted ReRun hardcore for running in new shoes (and yes, he drank a whole beer out of his shoe). Corrigan even managed to touch the hashit, and was a VERY good sport by drinking out if it (you know, beer, chips, Jager, twigs, etc). An impromptu on-after was held at The Stone Lion, where several hashers had more beverages and listened to the MCH3 pros talk about their club and great hash stories.

Many, many thanks to everyone who came out (visitor Captain Snatch, virgin Just Chris, virgin Just Chad, Just Leigh, Lost Cause, virgin Just Erica, virgin Just Sam, Just Ellen, virgin Just Rachel, visitor Corrigan, Captain Fro Ranger, Shiggy Mama and virgin Just Pete; if the WebLoser has forgotten anyone, it's nothing personal) and extra special thanks to our visitors from other hash clubs - everyone is always welcome and we hope to see you again soon.