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Hitchhikers - are they all ax-murderingly crazy - or just misunderstood

I Heart Internet · 2012-03-22 11:51:25

The petrol scam thread on here at the moment got me thinking about hitchhikers. That, and I passed one (a very well dressed woman in her 50s) yesterday. I've never picked up a hitchhiker. But I always feel that I should and feel bad about it afterwards. I would genuinely like to give people a lift if I could but there's…

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#52 22-03-2012 11:22pm

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I hitched a fair few lifts in the late 80s / early 90s. Never a problem.

Hitch-hikers were often warned about ax-murderingly crazy motorists too so it goes both ways.

Last year my car wouldn't start one morning so I set off to walk into town (20 minutes) to catch the bus to work. It started lashing rain so I stuck out my thumb. About 25 or 30 cars passed. Not one would pick me up. I was pretty unimpressed by that.

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