Hitchikers

Overheal

Would you? Do you? Have you?

I was running some errands this evening when I noticed a lad hitchiking on the side of the road. My immediate thought was No. I mean, I'm running errands around town so if he needs to get far, he has his feet, it was great weather and town was only a mile out. And if you need to go farther someone else can get you there.

So then I find him 30-40 mins later by the grocers, he's bought a case of mountain dew and a bag of shyte. The saddest part is I can't tell if he walked there or got the ride and spent the extra 15 minutes he saved debating whether to spend his dole on ho hos or twinkie puffs.

So I mean he's looking at me with his damn thumb out for a second time. I just looked back on him with contempt on my face. You're a grown man. You seem harmless enough, you're not going to stab me, but when you can't walk down the street to get your twinkie fix or be bothered your ass to enjoy the warm sunset and a calm breeze, I hope you rot and die in front of a nintendo somewhere.

Is there ever a time and place to pick up a hitchhiker?

Terry

Obama gives people in America dole?

Senna

Overheal wrote: »

I hope you rot and die in front of a nintendo somewhere.

Jesus he was only looking for a lift.

I prefer to slow down as i pass them, stop about 100 yards up the road, wait till they walk/run to within a foot of the door handle, then speed off. They dont like that for some reason, not sure why.

Shacklebolt

Overheal wrote: »

Is there ever a time and place to pick up a hitchhiker?

Just make sure they don't start telling you about 7 minute abs.

Overheal

Terry wrote: »

Obama gives people in America dole?

Trans: Unemployment Benefits.

minidazzler

I have hitched a few time's, once for a week and a bit while travelling around Ireland camping. I would definitely do it again. Never come across an assh0le, maybe a few crazies but no assh0les.

One guy gave me a lift from Galway to Limerick, A Cornbeef sandwich (Homemade Cornbeef!!), and €20 when I was talking to him and he realised I was broke!!! Sound out fella!!!

If I could drive and I was on my own going somewhere, I would most definitely pick up a hitcher without a doubt.

I also plan to do another trip sometime, don't know when though.

tl;dr, yes I have, Yes I would again.

javaboy

Merge with the driving through puddles thread?

O'Coonassa

Senna wrote: »

Jesus he was only looking for a lift.

I prefer to slow down as i pass them, stop about 100 yards up the road, wait till they walk/run to within a foot of the door handle, then speed off. They dont like that for some reason, not sure why.

Carry a heavy ball bearing in my right pocket for your back window lol :P

seanybiker

I never picked anyone up. I stopped to pick em up a few times but the normally crap themselves about getting on the back of a bike. Dont carry a spare lid with me often though so it dont happen that much.

Just out of curiosity but how do you know he was on the dole?. I know plenty of people with jobs who dont have cars or bikes.

Senna

O'Coonassa wrote: »

Carry a heavy ball bearing in my right pocket for your back window lol :P

From now on i'll just reverse over them as they approach the car, just in case its you:D

Schism

Never

Pete P Peterson

Overheal wrote: »

Would you? Do you? Have you?

Yeah ... sometimes. But if I'm honest, all that hiking makes their flesh a bit chewy.

cautioner

Maybe not around somewhere I'm not familiar with. But anywhere in a half an hour radius of where I live, I'd pick up one. I've done my fair share of it before I started driving so I like to.

phasers

... would this hitchiker be hot?

Overheal

phasers wrote: »

... would this hitchiker be hot?

Just reminded me of the time we hitched from Killadysert to Lahinch. Theres was me my brother and 2 very fine women with us. They ran about 20 meters ahead to flag down the car of some bloke who looked very disappointed when he realized it was a package deal.

Black Swan

Women should never pickup hitchhikers (no matter how cute the lad may be)! And they should not stop for women hitchhikers either, because she may have a bloke hiding nearby, and once you stop, opening your door, you are toast! (Car hijackers in the States sometimes work in teams and use a girl "honey trap" to con drivers to stop).

Terry

Overheal wrote: »

Just reminded me of the time we hitched from Killadysert to Lahinch. Theres was me my brother and 2 very fine women with us. They ran about 20 meters ahead to flag down the car of some bloke who looked very disappointed when he realized it was a package deal.

You made up them names.
You also made up the distance. Americans don't recognise the metric system.

S.I.R

i give anyone a lift who needs it once they dont smell or talk about my car when they get inside...


its not your ride its mine,

please don't fart when you get inside

Pete P Peterson

S.I.R wrote: »

i give anyone a lift who needs it once they dont smell my car when they get inside...

What does it smell like?

Pete P Peterson

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Women should never pickup hitchhikers (no matter how cute the lad may be)! And they should not stop for women hitchhikers either, because she may have a bloke hiding nearby, and once you stop, opening your door, you are toast! (Car hijackers in the States sometimes work in teams and use a girl "honey trap" to con drivers to stop).

That's the most sexist post I've ever come across. As a male frequenter of Route 50, I can tell you now that women hitchhikers suffer 30% less gruesome deaths than men. Sure, there's the rape and disfiguration, but men are the meat and drink of remote, roadside serial killers' bloodlust.

Black Swan

Pete P Peterson wrote: »

That's the most sexist post I've ever come across.

Geeeeeeez! I cannot address safety for women without being attacked by the PC police? I never brought up a comparison of women and men picking up hitchhickers as pertains to safety. You did. Have a Guinness and chill out!:rolleyes:

Pete P Peterson

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Geeeeeeez! I cannot address safety for women without being attacked by the PC police? I never brought up a comparison of women and men picking up hitchhickers as pertains to safety. You did. Have a Guinness and chill out!:rolleyes:

The PC Brigade are the ones to watch Blue Lagoon, they have all the resources needed for some pretty brutal hitchhiker massacring.

I was once a member of the PC brigade, and roughly around the time we started getting blamed on every single miniscule ill someone had about anything anyone else did in society, we realised we could get away with whatever the hell we wanted. Especially roadside murder.

I still refer to myself as a member of the PC Brigade, because, well, old habits die hard, and that was such an important part of my life. But then when it started to become less about the PC-ness and more about the massacring of folk ... well, that just wasn't me.

neoB

If I saw a woman with kids like, I may do so. I know I was out "being green" taking the bus instead of driving with the kiddos, and both of them fell asleep so I had to carry them to my mom in laws house. Only two blocks away and a lady stopped and gave us a lift .
Anything like that, I'd gladly give a lift!

Overheal

Terry wrote: »

You made up them names.
You also made up the distance. Americans don't recognise the metric system.

im thinking of the right place arent I?

*checks map*

Oh whoops...Ennistymon.

And why the hell does google spell it Lehinch? Thats new...

And I learned the Metric System! I like it because its divisible by 10 and boiling/freezing water is much easier to understand! If you read wikipedia and find out what 0 degrees F is - it defies comprehension. Who the fcuk would use such a measure?!

I Shot J.R.

My friend Sorcha used to always pick up hitchhikers, but the last one was a young blonde girl in Portugal, ended badly so had to chop her into pieces and hide the parts, blamed the parents and got away with it!!! I wouldn't accept a lift from a yellow punto driver along the N7 now!! f@%king Naas psycho!!
Gangsta rap made her do it
She champion

Abi

I've never hitch-hiked, nor would I ever pick one up. Far too dangerous.

Xiney

Strongly considered attempting to get a lift down the road when I had bags and bags of shopping. In the end I just walked it, because it's not far when you're not carrying so much, but my hands were sore after

I have a friend who hitches all over the country at weekends. Sometimes I feel rather dumb for wasting money on the bus.

used to do it when I was younger, ie 17/18. The people who pick you up seem to be great characters in general and a few weirdos thrown in.

It's rare to see many doing it these days, maybe the recession will see Hitchhikers reborn !

sam34

would never hitchhike or give a lift to a hiker.

way too risky, imo. might turn out ok but im not prepare to take that chance with my personal safety

My name is URL

I have picked up hitch-hikers before and probably will again. I don't buy into this paranoid notion that every stranger is out to brutally ass-rape and murder me.
It hasn't happened yet so forms good

minxie

i only stop for old people

Crumble Froo

thanks be to fcuk, two lovely christian girls picked me and a mate (both female, 18-20yrs) and gave us a lift the 15kms left of the 20km trip we'd foolishly embarked on (total mapread fail) while i was in melbourne/Victoria.

not our smartest move ever, but thankfully did work out for everyone involved.

My name is URL

Crumble Froo wrote: »

two lovely christian girls

Kind of like finding an old ₤5 note

Saibh

I would never give a lift to a hitch hiker

gave a lift to a hitchhiker from menlo to eyre square last week.. 3 of us in the car had a laugh, he was very grateful, everybody wins.

JerryHandbag

I hitchhiked once in my early 20s from Ballybunion, it took 4 separate lifts to get about 10 miles. Embarrassing. So I said **** this I'm buying a car.
Which I did. :cool:

I would only pick people up if I knew them, defo would not pick up strangers, especially after this episode not far from me :mad:

minidazzler

I don't understand why people don't pick people up.


The VAST Majority of people are not actually crazies. Not everyone is out to Kill you.


Though saying that, I would be wary about picking up females though, too much room for allegation. I still probably would, but I would be careful about it.

Overheal

minidazzler wrote: »

I don't understand why people don't pick people up.


The VAST Majority of people are not actually crazies. Not everyone is out to Kill you.


Though saying that, I would be wary about picking up females though, too much room for allegation. I still probably would, but I would be careful about it.

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Notorious

I don't think I'd hitch, nor would I pick someone up.
A guy came up to my car when I was in traffic lights this time last year. He just started opening the door without saying anything. Needless to say I jumped over to grab the door and bolt it closed. "I just want a lift, sir" (in an Indian accent). GTFO.

Wossack

Took weeks to get the blood out of the carpet from the last one, and now they're pretty wary of getting into a car driven by a bloke in a forensics suit with the seats covered in plastic

Notorious

Also while I think about it, I've an Italian friend whose in her mid-twenties. Shes lived in Ireland for the last three to four years and has been to every county in the country (I haven't done that and I've lived here all my life). Anytime she had two days off work she'd pick a county and jump on a train. The majority of the time she'd hitch back up to Bray.

She also had to be airlifted off Bray head on her first weekend in Ireland though.. maybe that explains something? :P

Donny5

Notorious wrote: »

Also while I think about it, I've an Italian friend whose in her mid-twenties. Shes lived in Ireland for the last three to four years and has been to every county in the country (I haven't done that and I've lived here all my life). Anytime she had two days off work she'd pick a county and jump on a train. The majority of the time she'd hitch back up to Bray.

She also had to be airlifted off Bray head on her first weekend in Ireland though.. maybe that explains something? :P

Not really. If I had heard about beautiful Ireland, and, on arrival, ended up in Bray, I'd want to be airlifted out too.

Firetrap

Never ever. It's not necessarily that I'm scared of picking up a Norman Bates or Hannibal Lechter but I don't like having strangers in the confined space that is my car. Also, if I crashed it they'd probably sue for injury.

Abi

My name is URL wrote: »

I have picked up hitch-hikers before and probably will again. I don't buy into this paranoid notion that every stranger is out to brutally ass-rape and murder me.

That maybe true young padwan, but its you they have to watch out for :pac:

minidazzler

Abigayle wrote: »

That maybe true young padwan, but its you they have to watch out for :pac:

That's the reward we hitchhikers reap.

Húrin

Overheal wrote: »

im thinking of the right place arent I?

*checks map*

Oh whoops...Ennistymon.

And why the hell does google spell it Lehinch? Thats new...

And I learned the Metric System! I like it because its divisible by 10 and boiling/freezing water is much easier to understand! If you read wikipedia and find out what 0 degrees F is - it defies comprehension. Who the fcuk would use such a measure?!

Ennistymon is also only a couple of miles from Lehinch. You hitched a couple of miles but detest someone who does the same in your OP?

Abigayle wrote: »

I've never hitch-hiked, nor would I ever pick one up. Far too dangerous.

Why is it thought to be more dangerous here than on the continent where it is quite common?

Abi

Húrin wrote: »

Why is it thought to be more dangerous here than on the continent where it is quite common?

I don't know. But what I do know is, I wouldn't take a lift or offer one anywhere.

Dave!

I possibly would... I've never actually seen one though It must be a pre-Celtic Tiger thing

Overheal

Húrin wrote: »

Ennistymon is also only a couple of miles from Lehinch. You hitched a couple of miles but detest someone who does the same in your OP?

To our credit we walked from the beach into Ennistymon, only when we needed to head back did the rain happen. When I went to school in Ennis I walked home 2.5 miles a day.

Anywho this mountain dew fella only wanted up the road. It was like asking for a lift up the length of Croke Park.

LadyE

Ive only ever seen one (whilst the driver) and going passed bf pointed out two fellas hiding in the bushes beside him...that put me off

I might possibly pick up a girl...

Oh! In the space of a week, about 2 years ago I was stopped at a junction (the same junction) being asked for a lift by a single women and then an elderly couple. I did give them lifts. I didnt really have much choice in these cases tho..they both opened the passenger door and asked me (and I would have felt bad if I said no :rolleyes:) so they wernt typical hitch hikers.

Valmont

I spent the summer in Alaska and I often had a 20mile stretch of highway to traverse so I always hitched. I actually had to walk 15 of them one day, no joke. Some of my funniest moments and interesting conversations have been with people who picked me up.