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Sort of. Around where I live. Usually it was men who would see me walking and offer a ride. Surprisingly, 99.9% were not creepy. !
I was saving money on ubers by walking and accepting rides. Sometimes I'd pay the random people instead of Ubers. One homeless man lived in his car and needed a radiator. I used him as an uber until he had the money for a radiator. Pretty cool!
I felt really good about that, but he got greedy. He thinks I am rich and wants more money so I fired him as my driver.
There is a racial component here. A white man pulling over and offering me a ride is 99% chance to want something and go so far as to try and take it. Black men it's the exact opposite.
Growing up in Chicago during the early 70s we did all the time. Never alone. I was at an all girl high school and we were tired of waiting for public transportation so we would hitch. Sometimes it was late and we couldn't' use our our student discount. Another time we wanted to visit a friend in the hospital and there was no bus line going there so we hitched.
My brother in law in the 70s hitched from Wisconsin to Canada. He thought it was a great adventure.
I hitched during the Johnson administration. It was fun, and money was free. I did the west coast one summer starting with $20 in my pocket. Three months later I came back with $20 in my pocket and a very nice 35mm camera. You could shower and do your laundry at a truck stop for $2 and make $10 washing a truck while your clothes were in the dryer.
I did a little more hitching in Nixon's first term, and things were not as friendly.
No, I never hitched, never needed to. I had a bicycle, didn't think anything of going 10 miles with it if needed. Bike got stolen, I got a moped for working the summer at my dads gas station. I rode the moped 10 miles to work and back every day, even after school. At 17 I had a car then a motorcycle. Never picked up anyone I didn't know; I was smarter then that due to working at the gas station and some of the freaks that came in. You didn't see many girls pumping gas in the late 70's to 90's. It's a miracle nothing happened to me. At one time I had a secret admirer who sent me a dozen roses and balloons. No clue who it was.
Those of you that hitched are lucky nothing happened to you. There are hundreds if not thousands of John and Jane Does that were probably killed hitching. Also look at Gerard Schaefer the serial killer in Florida, he killed my friends 13 year old sister in the early 70's and many more girls.
In California there's Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble who were unidentified for 30+ years, had most likely tried to hitch a ride to the mall. They were always hitching everywhere.
Tammy Jo Alexander who spent 35+ years as Caledonia NY Jane Doe. She hitched everywhere.
There was also a guy and his girl friend that people saw hitching. They were picked up by the wrong person, both are dead. They were another case of 30+ years as Does, were finally ID'd a few years ago.
Pemiscot County, MO John Doe & Blytheville, Arkansas Jane Doe - A young couple were seen together at a truck stop type restaurant called Scotty's in Blytheville, Arkansas. There was nothing unusual about the young couple. The girl was carrying a backpack and bedding. This indicates the couple were living life on the road. There bodies were found on June 17, 1978. There bodies were both found along I-55.
RALPH NADER, Presidential candidate and consumer advocate, regularly hitchhiked from his parents' house in Winstead, CT to (work or school?) in Hartford. In 1964, as a young attorney, he hitchhiked from CT to Washington DC carrying one suitcase, found at room at the YMCA, and began working for the Assistant Secretary of Labor, Daniel P. Moynihan.
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