Hitchhiking
musicismylife78
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have you ever done it? Its on my bucket list. I'd definitely be worried and nervous about the person being some kind of psycho, but how freeing would it be to start from your hometown, say in seattle, and hitch a ride all over the country, getting rides all the way? It would most likely be one of those things you tell your grandchildren about.
I really want to do this.
Whats everyones experience on hitchhiking? Is it safe? Weird or bad experiences? Good experiences?
I really want to do this.
Whats everyones experience on hitchhiking? Is it safe? Weird or bad experiences? Good experiences?
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Yep.... you tell them not to do it! Though I don't have grandchildren yet, just a daughter.
I think it is harder to do now, as times have changed and people are more weary to take a stranger in the car!
i get the sense its the other way around. potential hitchhikers or hitchhikers to be are weary to try it because of the images we've seen on a endless list of horror movies and tv news bulletins of people hitchhiking and getting into the car of the wrong person.
and just as a daily mode of transportation
my parents never knew or never said anything anyway if they did and i certainly never told them
now though, and i'm not sure why..i def would NOT do it,
and i sure would not want my children to be doing it at all
can't readily identify the reason i fell that way tho..well, yes, fear...but why more these days i can't say
jo
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I don't think I would do it on a highway or anything but hitchhiking served me well
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I bet you thought he was being a cheeky fellow when he pointed the gun at you.
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In all seriousness he should be executed, waste of space, and that wiki article needs any reference to him being of Croatian background removed from the page and instead replaced with Justin Bieber fan.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
but then, i remember walking home one evening. i was probably around 15 or 16 and a man pulled up slowly next to my and asked if i wanted a ride. i didn't recognize him. i said no. he pulled closer and began to ask me if i recognized him...he said that was our local mailman. then i did recognize him ... sort of, as much as a teenager pays attention to their mailman, you know. he said something like, you know me, i'm your mailman, i just want to give you a ride. and so it went, and eventually he went away and i never mentioned it to anyone...or any adult that is. he was quite persistent, driving slowly alongside as i walked, and trying to encourage me to trust him and to get into the car with him, but in the end i walked.
But NOW...after all these years, not that I didn't know that he was up to no good at the time, I did, even tho via a teenage mind, so I didn't get into the car. But now I recall where it was that he asked me if I wanted a ride, and it couldn't have been more than 2 blocks from my home..which he obviously knew, being our mailman.
So, no biggie, right? I mean I figured out he was up to no good from the get go. But it never occurred to me how daring he really was.
Funny the things you remember that you never considered so long ago.
What a creep he was. Well, I'm only going on this incident...but any middle aged man who wants to pick up teenage girls in the evening, cruising round town, and readily identifying himself as your public servant...well, that's creepy. I bet he was sweating bullets the next morning when he was wondering whether or not i had been freaked out enough to tell my parents..which of course, being 15, i would NEVER have done, even if the president of the United States of America had offered to give me a ride home, I would not have told my parents about it at all.
Wow, I' m glad I have a different kind of relationship w my kids..whewwwww.
Well anyway, I guess maybe the whole point of that is....it never occurred to me to STOP getting into cars with strangers....but I wasn't getting into that car w my mailman? WTF? Teenage brains right? Geezuzzz.
IT didn't stop me from hitchinking...and I don't think I ever really thought about EXACTLY what he was up to until today...wow! So many years later. Things could have been quite different. :?
jo
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I asked this unshaven, tobacco chewing disheveled looking fellow had he seen any bicycle riders on the road. He said nope and proceeded to spit a thick wad of his chew out the window. I jumped, as the chew dripped from his chin he told me to throw the bike in the back and hop on in done with a thick southern accent. I jumped in excitedly then as he drove off I realized NO ONE knew where I was or what was happening to me. Thoughts of him taking me to some secluded house and beheading popped up and NOBODY would know. Needless to say I was tired and scared out of my mind.
I sat right up against the door, looked for a handle just in case I had to jump out while the truck was rolling, oh there was no handle. Anyway he asked me, "what ya'll doing riding down herea?" I told we're riding for AIDS research and cure, raising money at least $1500 each rider. I had raised over $5000. Still spitting and after some silence he told me told me, "that's a damn good thang ya'll doin". My neck snapped as my fears somewhat eased up. He asked how many miles I was riding, I told him 106 today and 356 to DC.
Well he was nice enough to take me back to my wrong turn and I shook his his thanked him and he wished me good luck. i jumped out of that truck so fast and said thank you, somebody was watching over me. I hopped on my bike rode like the wind, as if a ghost was chasing me. Be careful of those wrong turns peeps.
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in iowa hitchhiking is almost zero.
we all know each other there and are friends even with complete strangers.
neighbors help each other out, no need to hitchhike into town.
washington state... not like iowa.
i see hitchhikers everyday. (out here neighbors do not help one another like im used too)
i never pick them up as they look like someone i would not like to have near me.
why do i wanna invite trouble and or bad smells?
flag me down if you are injured and need help, im cool with that.
you have not bathed in 2 months, youre wearing the exact same clothes for the last year, you smell like dog shit and you look like you are either drunk or drugged up...
no need getting into my piece of shit car.
keep walkin buddy...
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that doesnt make any sense to me.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
funny, i always pitched the person you described as you.
i kid i kid, don't go jumping off a bridge
Australia lets horrible convicted killer freak shows attend day trips to peal jam concerts?
shut the fuck up.......... :wtf: :crazy:
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
If one of my kids said they were going to do it I'd throw a wobbly and lock 'em in the house.
no one in my circle thought twice about the dangers of hitchhiking, certainly I didn't..fool that i was. I trusted everyone..hippie! lol!
Well, fortunately or unfortunately, that's something while I'd like to think I Did NOT Outgrow, sadly I have. I no longer trust everyone. Well, no that's not quite right...I trust EVERYONE, until they want a ride in My Car.
Is that hypocrisy or what?
but THEN AGAIN... :?
OH well, maybe I do trust everyone, as long as they have a stickman tattoo! heheheeeeee
There's no accounting :roll:
jo
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"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
Chad, If i lived where you do...I'd hitchhike. Small town, friendly people.
My friend used to call chat lines and have those people come pick us up. I wouldn't know about her plan until some weirdo showed up at her door. Then he'd take us somewhere. Once, it was from Kirkland all the way out to Ocean Shores...a good 3 hour drive...one way. I suppose she figured that since there were 2 of us, at least one of us would be able to get away. Not really hitchhiking...more of 'arranged hitchhiking' I suppose....I did accept a ride from a stranger once, I was walking to the bus stop, and the bus was 10 minutes early, as I came around the corner, the bus flew by. A car stopped and told me to get in and he'd chase the bus down for me. He caught the bus and I was off on my way to class...that was also 15 years ago.
Depending on where I am, I may still get a ride from a stranger. Tacoma=no...Medina=yes.
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Does that mean you're considering moving to Australia Chad?
JK..you know..I HAD to say it!
Love ya!
jo
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"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~