I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends...

What do you do for visitors to your hash, and what do you look forward to when you travel to other hashes?  As for the first, I try to be friendly, hospitable, and, if the visitors are female, I generally hit on them, ever so gently.  I try to explain our pack's peculiarities, at least with respect to marks, and I try to make visitors feel like they might simply be someone we haven't seen in a couple of weeks, instead of someone I've never met. 

How you treat visitors can say a lot about your hash.  If you're standoffish and clannish, letting a stranger stand alone and wonder if the next few hours might be uncomfortable, word will get around eventually.  You'll never get to meet other out-of-towners if word spreads that your hash is as welcoming to unfamiliar faces as a redneck bar would be to Snoop Dogg.

One of the finest things you can do for other hashers is hosting them in your home for an overnight stay.  Just think, these people have come some distance to do trail with you, possibly at great expense, and all you have to do is have beer in the fridge and a reasonably clean blanket and pillow for the couch and you've made their day.  Plus, the possibilities for payback are endless.  Living in a climate that's cold more than half the year, I'm sure to come out on the shiny end of the stick when someone who has stayed with me offers a couch, bed, condo or car at their home hash.  San Diego?  DC?  Austin?  Even Waukesha can be an exotic travel destination, when there's snow up to the tops of your shoes in Minneapolis.

Chances are you won't be inviting an axe-murderer into your home.  Sure, a traveling hasher might leave the toilet seat up, or put their dirty running shoes in the wash with your dress shirts, but there might be an upside to it; you never know, they may want to sleep with you.  And everyone knows, fooling around with out of town hashers can be lots of fun, whether it involves beer and pizza, or KY jelly and handcuffs.

So, take a chance, offer that strange hasher you meet on trail at home or away a spot on your couch and free access to all your booze, like Cuntinental Breakfast and Last Hole, $50 Bitch and Duckjob, or She Mussel Bitch and TAF have done for me when I've been away from home.  I'm sure you won't regret it.