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Ari & Mac // Otley Run #fancydress #arianagrande #macmiller #otleyrun (at Burnley Manchester Road railway station) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeZOXDDKPuM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Ari & Mac // Otley Run #fancydress #arianagrande #macmiller #otleyrun (at Burnley Manchester Road railway station) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeZOXDDKPuM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Lads on tour | Otley run | Leeds * * * * * * #otleyrun #Leeds #lads #ontour #birthday #whatanight #weekendvibes #shitshirts #Hawaiian (at Box Headingley) https://www.instagram.com/p/BznyS1VH727/?igshid=dj1xyqt9k20m
Had a great time doing the Otley Run with all my cats for @arrrbigail's birthday. #otleyrun #crazycatlady #fancydress #katebush #brides (at Otley Run)
👻😈🔮✨ (at The Fenton)
This ones birthday the other day #birthdaygirl #loveher #leeds #otleyrun
Such a great weekend... extremely tired and hungover but it was worth it! Big send off before heading out to America and for brothers birthday! #otleyrun #superheroes #drunkenmess #greatnight (at Otley Run)
That Time I Went on an Otley Run...
Halloween isn’t really a thing here. Children don’t go trick-or-treating or carve jack-o-lanterns, and there aren’t squads of basics walking around campus with topknots, wearing oversize scarves drinking PSL... That being said, the English do enjoy the casual beverage or 15, so every Halloween weekend students near and far line up outside fancy dress shops searching for the perfect combinations of slutty and “will I be able to pee in this easily when I’m drunk?!” As a seasoned Halloween participant, with deep North American knowledge about the holiday, I felt it was only right to participate in whatever my roommates decided to do. My American roommate is a real go-getter and gets shit done, so I was happy when she announced she was organizing an Otley Run this weekend.
Otley Run /ought-lee/ noun
1. Native to Leeds, Yorkshire, an Otley Run is when participants dress up in fancy dress (costumes), and enjoy a beverage at each of the bars along Otley Road. A true Otley Run consists of 16 stops, however there are different variations depending on the drinking level of said participants. “I went on an Otely Run last night and didn’t make it past The Hyde Park Pub!” synonyms Pub Crawls, Accidental Child March, I Went Home with Who Waltz
The lead-up to the Otely Run was great. The day before my friends and I went down to the costume shop, and because I decided to be super original and go as a cat the most difficult thing I had to do was choose between two sets of cat ears.
Sidebar: since my name is Kat, opting for the classic cat costume doesn’t make me basic, it makes me hilarious.
Me: Which ears Chris: The ones on the left for sure. The other ones are too slutty. Me: How are these *points to other set* slutty?! Chris: ...they are made of latex...
Great, now that the costume bit was out of the way I was ready for my first English pub crawl!
The night started off great! One of the bars had a patio with heat lamps, another had a really cute dog. I was in heaven! Everything was going swell until we arrived at The Original Oak...
I went up to the counter to order.
Me: Can I have a Carling please Dude Behind the Bar: ID please Me: Sure, here you go! Dude Behind the Bar: *looks at ID and then hands it over to who I assume was the head bar wench* (A lovely voluptuous woman, sporting something in-between a Juicy tracksuit and a dirndl with hair perfectly greased back into a stringy ponytail. Okay, I don’t actually remember what she looked like at all, but based on how I feel about her now, I assume the above was it.) Me: Something the matter? Dude Behind the Bar: Im sorry, we can’t accept non-EU drivers licences... Me: Thats totally cool dude, that isn’t a drivers license Head Wench: We can’t serve you Me: What?! It’s a Canadian government issued ID Head Wench: EU drivers licences only Me: I’m Canadian and don’t have a car here! Head Wench: *in an extreme C U next Tuesday tone* Bring your passport next time
Alright, I know what you’re thinking... Policy and all that jazz, but common, I am 26 years old and I’ve had 5 (6?) pints. I am not looking to make friends.
After this happens my buddy tells me hold his beer and he will go up to order one for me. As he simultaneously orders my drinks and I take a sip of his the head wench looks over at me and says “you can’t drink in here!”
DUUUUUUUUDE I AM 26!
As all this is happening I look over to see my American roommate having the same conversation as I did with the dude behind the bar. That was it. Something just came over me. Shit never comes over me, but in the moment it did.
Me: *In my loudest voice. in my most angry tone. With my middle finger in the air* FUCK THIS SHIT. FUCK YA, NORTH AMERICA! *and I storm out of the bar*
Needless to say, I felt awful after said incident and I had to get talked down out of the idea that I was going to get deported, high off of adrenaline and sad I wasn’t more of a lunatic in my undergrad years. (make a scene is fun AF!)
The Otely Run continued as plan, (luckily my friends like me, and all left the bar in solidarity.)
I am not sure which side of the coin I am going to take away from that nights events.
1. Always bring my passport out or 2. Stop wearing my night-cream that makes me as fresh faced as a first year during frosh week.
Anyways, Happy Halloween!
😘 #drinks #alcohol #leeds #otleyrun #jellybaby #cocktails #cosmo