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Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker?

  • 24-05-2013 06:41PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭


    The thread about the lads who are gonna hitchhike around Ireland got me thinking about this.
    I actually thought hitchhiking was illegal in Ireland, but upon Googling it, this website made it out that us Irish are mad for a wandering hitchhiker!
    http://hitchwiki.org/en/Ireland

    I would never let a stranger get into my car, nor would I want to get into a stranger's car myself.

    So have any of you given a hitchhiker a lift or would you?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,076 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Multiple times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,654 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Would depend on how big her boobs are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    No. I don't like strangers in my car either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Yes.



    I can't drive though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    I would never pick up a hitch-hiker, not a chance of that happening, never did and never will. :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    No Garda, never.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Loads of times. I used to live around 5 miles out of town and kids from the locality used to hitch in (well a few I remember in particular).

    Being carless and having to hitch occasionally a few years before myself I always rememembered them and gave them a lift.

    This one time there was a guy pulled in at the end of our lane broken down. He hed the bonnet popped and i stopped to ask if there was anything I could do for him. He said he needed to meet someone in town so I said I would run him in, even though I was on my way home when i met him. Looked into his car and there was a pile of 20 pound notes an inch thick on the passenger seat.

    Cha ching says I (I was about 17 and not driving very long) this guys is minted, he is sure to reward a youngun like me.

    So I ran him into town anyway. 'Thanks' he says and fks off.

    Cnut never gave me a rex.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Many a time but not in recent years. You see far fewer these days. There was a time when you wouldn't think twice about stopping, especially if it were raining but most people I see hitching these days don't look like the traditional hitcher I.e rain jacket, nap sack. Just don't feel as comfortable stopping these days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭carrig2


    I have often picked people up. I hitched a lot in my poor student days in the 80s and was very grateful to those that stopped.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    If alone in the car I generally give a lift. Unless they look dodgy. Had my spare reading glasses stolen by a short-sighed fucker that I dropped off at Emo some years ago. But over here? Never.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    Accidentally picked up two hitchhikers once, after mistaking them for two friends. I started talking a lot about my older protective brother a lot once I realised and quickly dropped them at a roundabout, saying I was going the wrong way. Was totally freaked! Have since gotten glasses.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    carrig2 wrote: »
    I have often picked people up. I hitched a lot in my poor student days in the 80s and was very grateful to those that stopped.

    Things have changed a lot since the 80's, there are a lot of psychopaths floating around nowaday's in the night. I just don't see the point in stopping and giving a lift to a complete stranger of which i don't know.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 128 ✭✭Popular Hardback


    I did, he talked about his planned '7 minute abs' video


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    zenno wrote: »
    Things have changed a lot since the 80's, there are a lot of psychopaths floating around nowaday's in the night.

    What would you attribute this drastic rise in psychopaths since the '80s to?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    jaja321 wrote: »
    Accidentally picked up two hitchhikers once, after mistaking them for two friends. I started talking a lot about my older protective brother a lot once I realised and quickly dropped them at a roundabout, saying I was going the wrong way. Was totally freaked! Have since gotten glasses.

    Can just imagine them standing at the roundabout wondering what happened! :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 128 ✭✭Popular Hardback


    To answer the OP, if they look clean, tidy and sober, I'll give them a lift, especially a tourist with a backpack.

    I've never had a bad experience yet.

    You'll never know when you'll need to hitch a lift yourself someday.

    Everyone does at some point in their lives.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭carrig2


    zenno wrote: »
    Things have changed a lot since the 80's, there are a lot of psychopaths floating around nowaday's in the night. I just don't see the point in stopping and giving a lift to a complete stranger of which i don't know.

    Never pick anyone up at night and yeah ok times have changed. I don't pick up every person I see but I would pick up strangers. I once drove 40 miles to bring an israeli girl to catch a bus because I didn't like to see her hitching alone


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    My english teacher when he was like 18 hitch hiked from NYC to california one summer. I say it was the sixties. I think by looking at someone you can tell pretty quickly whether they are dodge


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    What would you attribute this drastic rise in psychopaths since the '80s to?

    Wise instinct :P

    I just don't trust people anymore, i used to, but not anymore i don't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Im
    Afraid to promote it in case someone reads & it all goes pearshaped on them then! I've hitched years back ; here & abroad & from time to time give lifts ..kind of a what goes around comes around kinda thing. I'd always be cautious about who I gave a lift to & never pick up late at night unless it was a girl alone. Hard to balance minding yourself. & helping others out sometimes! Juggling act!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    SadieSue wrote: »
    Can just imagine them standing at the roundabout wondering what happened! :pac:

    Exactly, who was the lunatic in that story! :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    If alone in the car I generally give a lift. Unless they look dodgy. Had my spare reading glasses stolen by a short-sighed fucker that I dropped off at Emo some years ago. But over here? Never.
    jaja321 wrote: »
    Accidentally picked up two hitchhikers once, after mistaking them for two friends. I started talking a lot about my older protective brother a lot once I realised and quickly dropped them at a roundabout, saying I was going the wrong way. Was totally freaked! Have since gotten glasses.

    You from Emo, jaja? If so may I have my glasses back. PLease. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭thunderdog


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    If alone in the car I generally give a lift. Unless they look dodgy. Had my spare reading glasses stolen by a short-sighed fucker that I dropped off at Emo some years ago. But over here? Never.

    That was a little short sighted of him.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Nope, never have and don't think I ever would


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Do jockey backs count?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    ElleEm wrote: »
    So have any of you given a hitchhiker a lift or would you?


    I gave a guy a lift once... but left him back down when my legs started to give way :pac:


    Ah no, one of the funniest I ever heard (actually two of the funniest) -

    My brother a few years back when you could buy a lime green corsa for £50, was pulling up to pick up a hitch hiker, and as he was reversing back in the car he accidentally took a hard left and reversed back into the wall! The hitchhiker told him he was alright! :pac:

    Then my brother was walking into town when my ex girlfriend's mother picked him up, thinking it was me! Awkward conversation ensued apparently... :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Nope, never have and don't think I ever would

    I'm sure the hitchhiker would jump out the door at the first instance. Urea scent does not excite most people :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    Yes his head is still in my fridge.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8 Lightning Beard


    If by "picked up" you mean "kidnapped, murdered and buried" then...















    ...no.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Wattle wrote: »
    Yes his head is still in my fridge.

    Is that you jeffrey.

    Would anyone here give 'FRADA' a lift ? if you were driving down a brightly lit road and seen him holding a placard in the rain titled "Frada The Smug Bastard From Boards.ie", would you pull up and give him a lift ?.


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