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I used to but that was a long time ago and when I lived in a college town where a lot of students got around by hitch-hiking. And that probably wasn't the smartest thing to do. Nowadays, no. If I see a disabled car by the roadside and someone hitch-hiking next to it, I'd call our state's emergency number to report it. The world has changed and not for the better.
I haven't seen a hitchiker in years until last thursday, I saw one in Tennessee, but the truck was full, couldn't fit anyone in if I tried.
When I was a kid, my Mom always told me the evil stuff she would do to me if I hitchhiked. So, I never did. --Until-- I cut school one day to go play pinball at the bowling alley with "friend" of mine. So time got away and we need to get back to school fast. We start walking, and all the sudden my friends thumb goes up!!
Oh no . . .
I say "Lets just run, no hitchhike, we can make it . . . "
As soon as I say that, a big, white Lincoln pulls up in front of us. My friends gloats, chest all puffed up, says--"We're ridin' in style, too!".
As we get up to the car, the passenger door swings open and our principal asks us if we needed a ride.
My Mom was called in to pick me up. It was a rough night at my house.
1976. good times.
Multiple times in Colorado ... picking up skiers and boarders at the bottom of the pass. Give em a ride back to the top.
Once in Wyoming....she was obviously a backpacker. Turns out she was hiking the 3000 + mile CDT solo. I dropped her off in town then we had lunch. It was amazing talking with somebody that was hiking the hardest trail in the US solo! She had already done the PCT and the AT twice.
I have hitchhiked and I sometimes pick up hitchhikers.
The hitchhikers I pick up are only those who look "clean cut". I don't pick up anyone who looks like a bum or hippie - I don't want to be carrying anyone in my car who may possess illegal drugs.
I will not pick up anyone wearing a hoodie and not showing their face - what are they hiding from?
Many times I've picked up "working guys" whose cars have broken down or in one case the guy let an old woman onto the city bus in his place and hitchhiked instead - I came right along and he did not have to wait a minute for a ride!
I have hitchhiked and I sometimes pick up hitchhikers.
The hitchhikers I pick up are only those who look "clean cut". I don't pick up anyone who looks like a bum or hippie - I don't want to be carrying anyone in my car who may possess illegal drugs.
I will not pick up anyone wearing a hoodie and not showing their face - what are they hiding from?
Many times I've picked up "working guys" whose cars have broken down or in one case the guy let an old woman onto the city bus in his place and hitchhiked instead - I came right along and he did not have to wait a minute for a ride!
You mean like Ted Bundy or Philip Markoff?
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No. I guess I've watch too many of those Forensic Files shows on the ID channel. I wouldn't trust anyone that much nowadays.
I picked up a girl who was hitchhiking because I was afraid if I didn't, she might have gotten into a car with a man or men, and that sometimes ends up in tragedy.
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I did some hitchhiking when a teen, back in the late 60s, and almost always got picked up by harmless, even fun hippies in a VW bus that had only 2-3 of the 4 gears working and struggled up the hills. Other times an occasional trucker, but it never seemed dangerous then. Now I would consider the hitchhikers to be more worrisome than the driver, but in both cases there just seem to be more crazies out there now.
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