Hitch-hikers

foomanchu

Last time I picked up hitch hikers some years ago turned out to be drunken students who couldn't be bothered to walk up a hill. I've never picked one up since.

rdr

It was my default method of travel in the mid 80s, and when I got a car I paid the favours back to the extent that I would drive through some services to check for hitchers.
Very rare to see anyone bar the trade plate people these days.

LadyDee

50 years ago my friends and I hitched all around the country, round Europe (my mother, bless her heart, thought we had student train passes). Nobody we knew had cars, we didn't have the money to get around so virtually every weekend we'd take off somewhere with sleeping bags and just went to wherever our lift was going!

We did it in pairs or small groups, a mix of boys and girls. Those were the days.

James_N

marleyboy wrote: »

Never have nor would pick up a hitch hiker, on the same tip I never have and never would hitch hike.

Then you have missed out on a huge range of human experience - all good - and opportunities to meet people.

I hitched all over the country from the age of 14, slept out overnight with other hitchers and never had a bad experience. We (my GF now wife) only stopped when kids came along.

I won't forget the lifts two sodden teenagers got on Skye, or arriving in Looe after a two day hitch from London, for instance.

Gloomendoom

James_N wrote: »

I won't forget the lifts two sodden teenagers got on Skye, or arriving in Looe after a two day hitch from London, for instance.

I did it the other way round. I got to Skye in three lifts from Coventry. It only took me a day.

oldhand

I actually warned people where I live about 2 girls running a scam with hitch hikers.They drive up in a car with one driving and the other in the rear.They offer you a lift and say get in back with other girl.Once there the girl with you complains shes hot and starts pulling her top lower and lower till shes near topless.What you dont see is as your watching her top so closely she takes your wallet and you dont notice till you get out.
So be aware of this scam,I have been caught 4 times in 2 weeks already.....:p:D:D

Mankysteve

I've never done but my parents did you fore I came along in the 80s they say that used to get lift off lorry drivers and the like, I would suspect that nowa days insurance/stricter timing policyies policy will not allow them to pick up hitchhikers.

robatwork

Far fewer hitchers around now.

It's called the Law of Natural Selection.

iolanthe07

I gave a lift to a beautiful young hitchhiker years ago in more innocent times. It turned out that she had terrible B.O. The car reeked for days afterwards.

zagubov

Hitchhiked round the highlands in the 70s with a mate. An american family in a campervan stopped to give us a lift. The driver, the family's 15-year old son, turned and waved hi to us as he drove us round mountain bends. The parents said they wanted to give him the chance to drive on the wrong side of the road and hadn't seen any cops.

Got ourselves dropped off at the earliest opportunity.