Anyone ever hitchhike before?

Ever get a ride from someone after standing on the side of the road flagging a car down?

no, but I did pick up hitch hikers before...When I was younger and dumber and still thought that I was fairly invincible.

thepossiblepolice wrote:no, but I did pick up hitch hikers before...When I was younger and dumber and still thought that I was fairly invincible.

I take it none of them ever killed you?

Never on the side of the road with my thumb out but I have got rides from strangers before.

I have been offered rides from strangers (mostly guys, hmmmm) but have never accepted.

ive never stuck my thumb in the air, but i did accept a ride from a stranger. i was walkin back to my grandmas house (where i was stayin at the time) and it was snowin pretty dam hard, and this guy had pulled over asked if i needed a ride. now had it not been snowin, i wouldnt have accepted. but i did and got home safely. just glad he wasnt a big bad wolf!!

GrayWolf wrote:

thepossiblepolice wrote:no, but I did pick up hitch hikers before...When I was younger and dumber and still thought that I was fairly invincible.

I take it none of them ever killed you?

good point

My great uncle picked up a hitch hiker a couple years ago, and he got the crap beat out of him somehow.

We all have our suspicions based on the police report about how it went down, but my uncle is in the closet or if he's not, for some reason our whole family just thinks he is...So I didn't ask too many questions.

Never hitchhiked but I once got a ride from a total stranger who worked at my job so I guess the situation wasn't as hazardous. This was while I was in between cars. It was late and the buses had stopped running for the night, and my usual pick up bailed on me. I stood outside and basically asked this guy who I never saw before if he was going a certain way and he was good enough to drop me off.

I hitch hiked almost every weekend in the late fifties. Of course I was in US Navy uniform hitchin from San Diego to Redondo Beach where my girl lived. That was easy because I usually caught a ride with another sailor that had a car, He filled the car with sailors and we usually chipped in a bit for gas.

Coming back on Sunday nights was a bit more problematic. A lot of gays out cruising for young guys so I usually got picked up by one of them. Never a problem though, when they made their pitch, I just told them "I'm not interested, please let me off at the next corner". Eventually some sailor came along and took me the rest of the way.

I don't think I'd hitch hike now, to many predators out there. Not so bad for guys but girls are very vulnerable.

I don't often pick up anyone either but I did one evening when we lived in Tombstone, Arizona. I worked in Sierra Vista, about 18 miles away. On the way home, it was raining cats and dogs when I spotted a little sports car beside the road and as I drew near, a very shapely feminine leg popped out of the door and the lady waved me down. She had car trouble, was well out of town and was stranded. She asked if I could give her a ride to her Fathers home near Tombstone. What could I say, the lady was in distress and she was a looker!

Now, I'm an old married guy so I wasn't about to get involved in any hanky panky but the problem was her perfume. She used lots of it and it really stunk up the car and I was wondering how I was going to explain that when I got home! As we got nearer to Tombstone, she pointed to a dirt road off to the left and we turned in. I drove a good half mile off the road into the hills and was getting pretty nervous before the house came into view. Fortunately, she was above board and no harm came to either of us. When I got home, I immediately told my wife about it because I had no doubt that even I smelled of her perfume!