Both hashers had paid their emerging hash expenses straight from their own pockets in the temporary absence of our Hash Cash, that is no hash fees were collected at all this time.
Participants:
1 . Rabies (Trash Scribe and senior stand-in live Hare still alive)
2 . Fart Molester (aka Jp Singh, a newcomer from New Delhi)
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Waiting alone at the standard meeting spot (that is Batthyány square) soon before noontide on the sunny Sunday of 27/October/2024, I was already planning again a one-man hash trail for myself, when my phone rang.
It was hasher FM, a Sych warrior in disguise, fresh in Budapest, who wanted to join our hash of the day.
(He founded my phone number at our "The Budapest Hash House Harriers" fb site.)
Coming from India, the country with the highest population on earth, he was quite surprised to find me alone, the only one local hasher here.
I felt quite inconvenient and ashamed, too, also in place of all the other Budapest hashers absent this day.
However, at the end we improvised a nice and scenic "follow me" hash walk, a shortened version of the "bus11 - Árpád lookout - HHH" trail, to the greatest Hash delight of both of us, including some fence jumping through bushes, plus two quick Beer Stops.
(The Hash had to be shortened because FM had another program in the evening.)
Admitting the truth, I am not much surprised to see the recent decline in the turnout at BPH3 Hash Runs.
With 34 years of international hash background I find BPH3 runs less and less luring, week by week.
In my opinion it is because of the despotic management and the recent changes introduced by our beloved hash dictator, thus abandoning true Hash spirit, basic Hash principles and age old worldwide Hash traditions, such as:
- Unequal judgement of hashers, unexplainable exemptions, (e.g. at hash fee collection), easy toleration of consequently antisocial Hash behavior.
- Supporting competitiveness, something far away from the basic idea of Hashing. (On the contrary, excellence on Hashes should be strictly punished...)
- Hares simply disappearing before the arrival of the pack.
- Neglecting joint singing, staying out of (or simply skipping) the solemn Circle Ceremonies, rather sitting and eating instead of.
- Suppression of Hash Beer consumption.
- Hash money wasted in arbitrary ways.
- Notorious changing of the location and the time of meeting before Hash Runs.
- Paralel running of 3 unharmonized net platforms, (Googlegroups, Facebook, WhatsApp), so amongst them even key information can easily get lost.
- Introduction of censorship in Hash correspondence.
- Banning traditional Hash language and usual Hash expressions.
These are only some symptoms, but is there anybody who knows the cure, too?
(Or, should I just "love it or leave it"?/:+))
On-On, Rabies