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What are your thoughts on hitchhiking, anyone ever done it, or picked someone up who's doing it ?
I hitched 120 miles one time, very interesting time, met some cool ass mothers. Also, every time i've ever seen someone hitching, i've picked them up, also met some cool people doing this. I've never had a bad experience with hitchin, but i know a lot of people that when i tell them i've done it and i've picked people up, look at me like im crazy as a loon.
you do know the "rules of the raod" right?
if you dont, please watch jay and silent bob strike back
i picked up this kid while driving into my 'hood. jeebus, he was weird. kept talking about the army like it would impress me. example: 'yeah those AK 47s are pretty heavy when you have to carry them around for a four mile hike''. the funny thing was that i picked him up and he was wearing a Giant Supermarket uniform, not camo. i see his every once in a while in my neighborhood.
I did it a lot when I was young back in the 70's... I have not seen a hitcher in like 10 years in my area... back then there were creeps to,,,it's just that news and info did not spread as fast as it does today,so you did not hear stories of rape and shit... If you can handle your shit go for it,,,I would not suggest a 90 pound defenseless person do it...
I wouldn't hitch hike just because it's hard to trust people in this generation. My dad said when he was younger he would hitch hike to work all the time and people would always give others rides. I try to trust people but I don't think I could hitch hike. Last random people me and my friend asked a favor from robbed the gas station we were at.
I've given rides to people, but i dont think i'd be able to handle myself as a hitcher. I'd probably get my ass kicked or something.
I hitchhiked from Florida to Louisiana once, around 900 miles. I would always juggle in between rides to attract attention and get more rides.
what was once common-place is now so rare that i haven't seen a hitcher in years. for the most part, hitch hiking is as safe as it always was. there have always been the loonies out there and if you keep alert you have little to fear, provided you can handle yourself in a pinch. in all my years of thumbing rides i only had a problem once and a well placed buck knife was enough to get me out of that.
oh yeah, the time i hitched 120 miles, every single person that picked me up was drinking. i had two bottles of whiskey with me in my bag that i was taking swigs of to pass the time while i walked. every person that picked me up offered me a beer. by the time i got to where i was going, i was trashed.
also i think a lot of hitch hiking has to do with where you are. like where i live, i see it more frequently than in and around cities.
i love to thumb it.... its cheaper then paying for gas... and you will get a ride eventualy....the longest trip ive ever had... was a couple of 45-50 miles of hitchin rides... and ive done the trip more then once... ive met so fucking sweet people... one time..... i had my thumb out... i got picked up by a complet stanger... 5 minutes later, we find out we are cusians...
YOU ARE COOL!! I would pick you up... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by geonagual
Yeah I pickup riders.. I picked up a 300lb+ woman once just north of LA on a freeway ramp.. after about 20 minutes I realized she was a HOOKER and she realized that I thought she was a htchhiker... what fiasco.. that was..
the same thing happened in Honduras.. i picked up a hitch hiker and it was a hooker... NO i did not get a hummer or handy...I just said sorry.. and then dropped them off..
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I've hitchhiked a number of times. Sometimes I'd wake up after partying all night in another city or town. Not too far from home. No more than 30km usually. I got picked up right away and everytime. The most I stayed on the highway was for 15 minutes.
My mom and dad in the 70's hitchhiked all over Europe and Canada. They've told me all kinds of stories meeting so many people on the road. They had no car and very little money.
It's not it once was though. I try to avoid hitchiking now, but if i have to, then whatever, I'll do it. :)
I picked up hitchhikers a few times.
All of them were cool, it made for conversation on long boring drives. One even shared a joint with me.
I don't why many people are so afraid. Kindness needs to be spread around.
I guess for whatever reason, there is a perception that everyone hitchiking is mass murderer. I am sure that it is perpetuated by the movies. I definitely would never hitch hike if I was a girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by higher4hockey
I once got picked up and rode 20 miles in a trash truck. Not in the back either. Right up in the passenger seat. Shit, I wanted to go dump some dumpsters. That would of been fun.
i hitchhiked from eureka cali. to grants pass oregon... like 300 miles or something....
with a halfpound on me.. lol
i got picked up by 2 girls and we smoked blunts the whole trip