Was going home from work today and I see this guy hitchhiking. There was a part of me that wanted to stop to pick him up but I was too leery to do so. However, I can't help but think that more and more people hitchhike and also more and more people are picking up hitchhikers. So, let's hear it - have you hitchhiked before? Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? Colorful stories/anecdotes are welcomed.
I guess everyone else here is like me - never hitchhiked nor picked up any hitchhikers. Oh well - dud thread on my part.
I think Neil Diamond did something with a hitchhiker, can't remember what, but later that night he wrote "Forever In Blue Jeans."
I have picked up hitchhikers in the past, but I do look rather carefully at what kind of person it seems to be. I am not very scared of other people, so it's not a big deal to me, but my overall tendency would be not to pick up hitchhikers.
I've picked up hitchhikers in the past (70s and 80s), but I wouldn't now - mainly because of my family. No exciting story though.
I have never hitchhiked, but I have picked up a couple of hitchhikers...only the fine looking female kind.
Ive hitchhiked before, usually if I missed the school bus, a nice person would ask if i needed a ride, and I would hop on. And I do the same back, if im goin to school and see someone walkin, id pick em up. Thats about it, other than taht, im scared of hitchikers on the highway, they even look creepy.
When I was a little kid, I hitchhiked in Houston with my big brother. I've hitchhiked in France a bit, but it's different in Europe especially for a guy. I've also picked up one hitchhiker. He was an old man, who, it turned out was going to his daughter's in Austin. It was cool picking up a guy and talking to him, and finding about him. Another friend of mine hitchhiked from Seattle to Houston, and back again one winter, and I think he has hitchhiked quite a bit. He said he was only scared once, and kept a pocket knife on him just in case. The one time he was scared he just told the driver that the changed his mind and was going to hang around whatever town they were at for a while. He met a couple of other hitchhikers once that were female, and they hitchhiked briefly together. It sounded kind of fun.
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Didn't need to read that thread again Drox.... Wow. I used to hitchhike when i was in my teens and early twenties. Usually to go skiing...it was one road to the mountain and pretty obvious where i was going (and the set of ski's on my shoulder made it totally obvious). I also used to pick people up regularly...usually people in their teens or twenties... I guess we really never know who the wacko's are, and they could look 'normal' but somehow, i trusted my judgement. Never had a problem. Met some cool people. Always felt like i was helping them out...and gave me someone to talk to on an hour plus drive. I rarely do now. And i rarely see people hitch-hiking. I think i gave a guy a ride last summer...or maybe it was the summer before. It's sad, really, that we can't help each-other out...but that's the way of the world.
I did one time after work at night and will never do that again. Some old blk male came up to me as I was goin to my car asking me If I could drive him home. I at first said no, but than he kept begging saying he would have to walk 10 mile and it was cold and rainy. I think to myself, well since this old guy was fragil and little that If anything happen I could fight it off, so I said ok hop in. So I was driving him home I was beganning to freak out since we were heading to east side in the gettho slum and that he might have a gun or a nife on him. Luckily for me, he was not that type and everything was good. But I still, Ive learn a valuble lesson. I could've have easily been killed buy the guy and take my car and nobody would know. No matter how nice you're NEVER pick up a stranger its that simple. When I tell people that story, they said I was stupid and they were right.
I have hitched 3 times. First time I was hiking and missed the trail exit where I was suppose to be picked up. A few hours later I found my way out of the forest and onto a highway where I got a ride in the back of a truck back to our camp. Once I stayed on the Guad too long and missed my pick up point and my ride back to camp. I got severly sunburned and eventually I got picked up and a free beer for the ride. The last time I decided to hitch from Katy to Austin to party for the weekend with friends. I only walked about 3 miles before I got a ride from 3 cute girls. I ended up partying with them all weekend and never met my friends then one of the girls gave me a ride home on Sunday evening. I picked up a hitcher one time and he stole a joint out of my ash tray when I was getting gas, smoked it with me, then after I dropped him off and noticed it was my joint.
A friend of mine picked up a hitchhiker in California. It turned out to be Perry Ferrell from Jane's Addiction. I know quite a few people that have hitchhiked all over the States etc. I have never done it though.
I hitchhiked last year from Edmonton to Red Deer (about 150 km). First person that picked me up had the backseat full of bagged mar1juana and he was doing a drug deal on the phone. He dropped me off in the middle of nowhere. I had to walk 10 km to get to somewhere more accessible and was picked up by a multimillionaire who dropped me off at the Dorm doorstep. Oh yeah, and this was in minus 20 celsius weather. Total wait time for the 2 rides was about 1.5 hours combined. oh yeah, and the drugdealer threw his phone out the window about 25 minutes into the ride.
Does anyone remember the part from "Something about Mary" where Ben Stiller picks up the hitchhiker and...
"Step into my office." "Why?" "'Cause you're ****in' fired." Favorite scene in that movie. The cheese line was great too.
I thought about picking up a couple hitchhikers once (back 8years ago). Driving thru a small town her ein Ohio and 2 very cute girls were hitchhiking. I actually turned around but by the time I did someone already picked them up. I figured I would have either ended up in jail (they looked over 18 but you never know), dead, or having the best time of my life. Oh well day late and a dollar short!