What's Normal? - Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? (1 Viewer)

[Dezbelief]

People in need...Yes
Vagabond/Drifter....No

Respectfully, how can you tell the different before picking them up?

1. Do they appear to have showered in the last week?

2. Does their hair look like it's ever been brushed?

3. Can you smell them before you roll down the window?

4. Is there a bedroll tied to their backpack.

A prison escapee likely would have taken a showered somewhat recently, brushed his hair, smells okay (because shower), and wouldn't have a bedroll.

Hopefully I'm aware enough of local news to know when I'm in the area of an escaped convict.

 

[jamny]

In the 80's once. I was driving home at night in a snowstorm and saw someone hitching that I thought was someone I knew. Turns out it wasn't him but he was only going a couple of miles my direction anyway so it wasn't a long ride.

 

[Dezbelief]

It was the summer of '69.

My dad hitchhiked from Texas to Oregon with a quarter in his pocket.

 

[eoMMan]

It was the summer of '69.

My dad hitchhiked from Texas to Oregon with a quarter in his pocket.

Did your mom pick him up? That would be a beautiful story.

 

[belljr]

those prickly things are pain in the *** getting off your pants and socks

 

[PIK95]

People in need...Yes
Vagabond/Drifter....No

Respectfully, how can you tell the different before picking them up?

Do their balls hang low? Do they swing to and fro?
Can you tie 'em in a knot? Can you tie 'em in a bow?
Can you throw 'em o'er your shoulder like a Continental soldier?
Can you do the double shuffle when your balls hang low?

I think of Johnny Drama with the bear costume on every time I see/hear some version of this tune.

 

[Keerock]

My mom was (is) in a cult-ish religion that required her and another woman to hitchhike together from Ohio to Colorado and back. I don't know the details, but I'm pretty sure it was to "preach" to whoever picked them up. This was back in the late 70's. I'm shocked she's still alive.

 

[zamboni]

It was the summer of '69.

My dad hitchhiked from Texas to Oregon with a quarter in his pocket.

And with his first real six-string?

 

[PIK95]

I have to be careful what I say here, but, through work, I'm keenly aware that some hitchikers aren't, uh, nice people. So, based on that I never have and never will (assuming the hitchiker is a stranger to me).

Clarifying the above, I actually have picked up a person who was technically hitchhiking on the side of the road but I knew him and knew him to be safe to pick up.

what do you have to careful about?

He doesn't want some cereal guy getting off on a technically over some private privilege info I would assume

 

[ChiefD]

It was the summer of '69.

My dad hitchhiked from Texas to Oregon with a quarter in his pocket.

And with his first real six-string?

I heard he played it 'til his fingers bled.

 

[El Floppo]

People in need...Yes
Vagabond/Drifter....No

This.

Drifter was a good dude. Seems harsh

 

[brun]

Honestly can’t remember the last time I saw someone hitchhiking.

Never hitchhiked or given a hitchhiker a ride and nowadays I wouldn’t eve

- unless I thought I had no choice at all.

Almost never see 1 anymore. However, just a couple weeks ago I saw a guy hitch hiking, looked pretty old and actually was leaning on a walker. Don't know it was really needed or just to generate sympathy.

 

[Phil Elliott]

No, but a few times many years ago a friend of mine and hitchhiked to get home ( was in the country).

 

[Dezbelief]

It was the summer of '69.

My dad hitchhiked from Texas to Oregon with a quarter in his pocket.

Did your mom pick him up? That would be a beautiful story.

They were two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl.

No she didn't. My parents were 3 years apart in towns 30 miles from each other. It was my mom's senior year and there were two parties happening in her little town of 5,000. When my mom and her friend knocked on the door of one party the hippie smoke poured out when the door opened. My mom said, "Oh we're at the wrong party." My dad stood up and assured her she was at the right party.

 

[El Floppo]

Where I grew up NCal, the beach and related towns were "over the hill" (coastal range/national park), 30 mins from the rest of us. There were frwuently hitch hikers on the one road over trying to go one way or the other- usually teenagers, but often adults. I would almost always give them rides if I had room, unless they looked ... off.

 

[The General]

Believe I have told this story on here before…but I picked up a hitchhiker once in college driving from Indiana to Wyoming. Not a hitchhiker but a woman and her daughter whose car had broken down.

When I pull over at the next gas station I see she refuses to get out of my car. Her son was graduating from the Marines and the only way she says she makes it is if I drive her she claims - it’s a few hours out of my way.

I kindly say I cannot do this but she’s not leaving. I look at her daughter and I still remember the look which was basically “you are ****ed”.

So did you take her?

Yep...There was no getting out of it.

 

[Zow]

Believe I have told this story on here before…but I picked up a hitchhiker once in college driving from Indiana to Wyoming. Not a hitchhiker but a woman and her daughter whose car had broken down.

When I pull over at the next gas station I see she refuses to get out of my car. Her son was graduating from the Marines and the only way she says she makes it is if I drive her she claims - it’s a few hours out of my way.

I kindly say I cannot do this but she’s not leaving. I look at her daughter and I still remember the look which was basically “you are ****ed”.

So did you take her?

Yep...There was no getting out of it.

Calling the police down?

 

[The General]

Believe I have told this story on here before…but I picked up a hitchhiker once in college driving from Indiana to Wyoming. Not a hitchhiker but a woman and her daughter whose car had broken down.

When I pull over at the next gas station I see she refuses to get out of my car. Her son was graduating from the Marines and the only way she says she makes it is if I drive her she claims - it’s a few hours out of my way.

I kindly say I cannot do this but she’s not leaving. I look at her daughter and I still remember the look which was basically “you are ****ed”.

So did you take her?

Yep...There was no getting out of it.

Calling the police down?

I didn’t have that in me. This was also before cell phones and doubt that thought even crossed my mind TBH.

The longer version of the story is I had put up a thing on the ride share board. Literally had a ballerina take me up on the offer and was taking her to Colorado Springs. I pulled over to help out the woman and her daughter to help make a young General look like the kind of guy who saves damsels in distress.

She agreed we were kind of screwed here and she actually drove a large portion of our unplanned detour

 

[Zow]

Believe I have told this story on here before…but I picked up a hitchhiker once in college driving from Indiana to Wyoming. Not a hitchhiker but a woman and her daughter whose car had broken down.

When I pull over at the next gas station I see she refuses to get out of my car. Her son was graduating from the Marines and the only way she says she makes it is if I drive her she claims - it’s a few hours out of my way.

I kindly say I cannot do this but she’s not leaving. I look at her daughter and I still remember the look which was basically “you are ****ed”.

So did you take her?

Yep...There was no getting out of it.

Calling the police down?

I didn’t have that in me. This was also before cell phones and doubt that thought even crossed my mind TBH.

The longer version of the story is I had put up a thing on the ride share board. Literally had a ballerina take me up on the offer and was taking her to Colorado Springs. I pulled over to help out the woman and her daughter to help make a young General look like the kind of guy who saves damsels in distress.

She agreed we were kind of screwed here and she actually drove a large portion of our unplanned detour

That plan backfired.

 

[The General]

Believe I have told this story on here before…but I picked up a hitchhiker once in college driving from Indiana to Wyoming. Not a hitchhiker but a woman and her daughter whose car had broken down.

When I pull over at the next gas station I see she refuses to get out of my car. Her son was graduating from the Marines and the only way she says she makes it is if I drive her she claims - it’s a few hours out of my way.

I kindly say I cannot do this but she’s not leaving. I look at her daughter and I still remember the look which was basically “you are ****ed”.

So did you take her?

Yep...There was no getting out of it.

Calling the police down?

I didn’t have that in me. This was also before cell phones and doubt that thought even crossed my mind TBH.

The longer version of the story is I had put up a thing on the ride share board. Literally had a ballerina take me up on the offer and was taking her to Colorado Springs. I pulled over to help out the woman and her daughter to help make a young General look like the kind of guy who saves damsels in distress.

She agreed we were kind of screwed here and she actually drove a large portion of our unplanned detour

That plan backfired.

It really did. If I had any game at all it might have been much better.

Because we were delayed getting into Colorado Springs I slept on the couch of her friend‘s place. I was going to work at Yellowstone Park for a summer job and that was a big hit with her frIend. No cell phone, no Facebook, so I never talked to either of them again.

 

[UncleZen]

So when I was in the Air Force in Great Falls, MT, it was not uncommon that when the bars closed, we ended up taking other Jetters back to the base. Does that count?

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I have been a hitchhiker.
One day on a rainy night i was standing with no umbrella and no coat when she picked me up
She took me to a hotel she knew well and we made magic that night. I did everything right.
I brought the woman out of her, so many times. Easily.

When i woke she left me this weird note about flowers and seeds, gardens and trees.
Thought she was a bit of a psycopath. I ran up the bar bill and left.
Imagine her surprise when i ran into her round the same way.
She showed me this kid that supposedly had my eyes and said to leave her alone.

Crazy woman. I hightailed it out of there. Not paying child support. She doesnt have any of my details anyway so im all good.
Close call.

 

[The Z Machine]

Only in Hawaii

 

[the moops]

25 years ago, all the time. Mostly hikers trying to get back to their car, concertgoers looking for a ride, dudes needing a ride to a gas station, or the random old dude looking to get to California for the next Dead show. Have been on the other side of those experiences a few times and always appreciated when the thumb out on the side of the rode got me a ride. Karma and all, you know

 

[Drunken knight]

People in need...Yes
Vagabond/Drifter....No

Respectfully, how can you tell the different before picking them up?

1. Do they appear to have showered in the last week?

2. Does their hair look like it's ever been brushed?

3. Can you smell them before you roll down the window?

4. Is there a bedroll tied to their backpack.

A prison escapee likely would have taken a showered somewhat recently, brushed his hair, smells okay (because shower), and wouldn't have a bedroll.

Hopefully I'm aware enough of local news to know when I'm in the area of an escaped convict.

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[Caveman33]

Only once that I remember. I was driving away from a coke dealer's house where I sometimes hung out, and a lady walked up to my car at a stop sign. She was mid 50s and not very attractive. She said she needed to get medicine for her kid. I thought I was giving her a ride to the CVS across the highway but then she was like, just a couple blocks further. While I waited in my car outside a house like my dealer's house, I began to wonder if I should just leave and not chauffeur her and her drugs but after 5-10 minutes, she came back out and I dropped her back at the stop sign where she first tricked me.

Another time, leaving a different dealer's house, I was driving on the side street to a highway and a young, tall dude started waving and running towards my car. I took a second look and then booked it onto the highway.

 

[Keerock]

Only once that I remember. I was driving away from a coke dealer's house where I sometimes hung out, and a lady walked up to my car at a stop sign. She was mid 50s and not very attractive. She said she needed to get medicine for her kid. I thought I was giving her a ride to the CVS across the highway but then she was like, just a couple blocks further. While I waited in my car outside a house like my dealer's house, I began to wonder if I should just leave and not chauffeur her and her drugs but after 5-10 minutes, she came back out and I dropped her back at the stop sign where she first tricked me.

Another time, leaving a different dealer's house, I was driving on the side street to a highway and a young, tall dude started waving and running towards my car. I took a second look and then booked it onto the highway.