Run #1297 - The Longest Checkback Ever

August 28, 2006

Hares: Suck Her Prunes, Tastes Like Chicken
Where: Key West Bar & Grill, #201, 1104 - 6 Av SW
Big Rock: Cheap and plentiful
Attendance: 42

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If the Calgary hash ever decides to open a Hall of Fame to honour things such as Longest Checkback Ever, then Tastes Like Prunes and Sucks Her Chicken — or whatever their names are — will become charter members.

There was the two-kilometer roundtrip beauty to the 14th Street Bridge, not to mention a couple, uh, rather lengthy ones in the Sunnyside-Kensington area — just before the steep climb up the stairway to heaven, or in this case, Crescent Heights.

The trail along the ridge offered gorgeous panoramic views of downtown Calgary and the Bow River on a warm and sorta hazy late August evening — assuming anyone wasn't too tired from all the checkbacks to notice.

The memory of those long buggers paralyzed the pack as it stood at a check far above the curling club. Nobody really wanted to run down the steep hill, fearing that the co-hares would mess with them again and make them trudge back to the top.

But the group gingerly decided to make their way down, which, miracle of miracles, was actually the right way. Then it was just across the bridge to Prince's Island and back to the always hash-friendly Key West bar, where it was a night of hello agains and goodbyes. For instance:

By night's end, Sumpyton and Squeeky received almost all the hugs, handshakes and kisses they could handle. They trudged out of the bar, and walked down the darkened street after rejecting the idea that maybe they could hitchhike to Victoria — which would be a really, really long checkback.

On On!
Duke of Hurl

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