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Do you pick up hitchhikers?

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  • #32
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,789 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    In "the old days" everybody hitched ...from Granny to schoolchildren and I always gave lifts if I could.

    These days all that's left is drunks trying to make it to the next pub or tourists with three tons of gear.

    Ireally hate it, when there is just one (usually girl) at the side of the road and as soon as you stop another three guys and five huge backpacks appear from behind the bushes.

    So ...whoever has the money for another drink or a holiday in expensive Ireland can get their lift from bus Eireann ...not me


  • #33
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    byte wrote:
    The only time I'd pick up somebody is if I knew them. Otherwise, I'd drive on by.

    RUU, You really are a measured guy, everything you say seems to be quite sensible. I would only do this myself if they are people I know or a hot chick wearing minimal clothing on a hot day after a sudden downpour maybe only.


  • #34
    fjon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭fjon


    I've never actually stopped for someone hitch-hiking, but I have given strangers a lift on a few occasions when I see them walking along the road and it is raining hard. Never had a bad experience (except for wet seats), and most of the time they try to offer you money (which I of course try to refuse).


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