Hitchikers

Crumble Froo · 03-05-2009 11:25AM

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 · 03-05-2009 11:27AM

Crumble Froo wrote: »

two lovely christian girls

Kind of like finding an old ₤5 note

Saibh · 03-05-2009 11:32AM

I would never give a lift to a hitch hiker

03-05-2009 11:57AM

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 · 03-05-2009 12:16PM

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 · 03-05-2009 04:31PM

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 · 03-05-2009 04:56PM

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.

Scroll Forward to 3:30

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Notorious · 03-05-2009 05:06PM

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 · 03-05-2009 05:11PM

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 · 03-05-2009 05:12PM

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 · 03-05-2009 05:32PM

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 · 03-05-2009 06:03PM

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 · 03-05-2009 06:43PM

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 · 03-05-2009 06:47PM

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 · 03-05-2009 07:00PM

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 · 03-05-2009 07:13PM

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! · 03-05-2009 07:13PM

I possibly would... I've never actually seen one though

It must be a pre-Celtic Tiger thing

Overheal · 03-05-2009 07:14PM

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 · 03-05-2009 07:23PM

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 · 03-05-2009 09:29PM

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.

Valmont · 03-05-2009 09:31PM

Put it this way, even if you pick up every hitchhike you see or hitchhike everywhere, there's still a far greater chance of just dying in a smash.

Blisterman · 03-05-2009 09:54PM

Only hitchhiked once, when I was in the Netherlands, about 20 miles outside Amsterdam, in what must officially be the middle of nowhere. Pretty much just flat empty land in all directions to the horizon. 3am, buses weren't starting till 8. Two of us had been walking, looking for a payphone or taxi for about half an hour, and one car passed us in all that time.
So another car came along, and I decided half heartedly to stick my thumb out. The car went past, about 200m along the road, stopped and reversed towards us.
I was thinking "Jesus christ, what sort of person picks up a hitch hiker around here. We're dead", but got in the car anyway.
But fair credit to the guy. He wasn't even heading to Amsterdam, he was heading to rotterdam, but he drove us god knows how many miles out of his way, right to the city centre.

stovelid · 03-05-2009 09:57PM

Simple selection criteria: Unless you're hot, I'll probably not.

Like real life, I guess.

Tech3 · 03-05-2009 10:00PM

Hitchikers are scabby people. If you want to go somewhere there is public transport. There was an article on a paper showing how many people hitchike to save money rather than going on a bus.

deaddonkey · 03-05-2009 10:03PM

I hitchhike, and will continue to do so.

Have met some real nice, kind people that way, and had interesting conversations.
Have also (once) been in a car with 2 serious weirdos.

phill106 · 03-05-2009 10:16PM

I've given lists a fair bit, though i wouldnt give a lift to 2 lads, just my thing. All were very thankful, and i hardly ever got molested....

Overheal · 03-05-2009 10:29PM

LadyE wrote: »

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.

I remember someone telling me this - they bought and kitted out an old house kinda like a Winnebago. Anyway as theyre driving along they get into some traffic and crawl pass a bus stop where they pass some old woman on a bench. a few seconds later she's run up to bang on the door, and she was pissed. Eventually she realised the situation but they gave her a lift to her place anyway.

I wish I could remember who told me this story >_>

stovelid · 03-05-2009 10:48PM

Valmont wrote: »

Some of my funniest moments and interesting conversations have been with people who picked me up.

To be honest, this is what puts me off picking up hitchers the most. If you're driving a long way, you don't want to be trying to keep up conversation with a hitcher if they end up being chatty.

Manic Moran · 04-05-2009 03:06AM

Don't believe I've ever done it in the US, though I have pulled over by pedestrians and asked if they wanted a lift.

Routinely do it in Europe. Most recently last month in Holland.

NTM

minidazzler · 04-05-2009 03:10AM

tech2 wrote: »

Hitchikers are scabby people. If you want to go somewhere there is public transport. There was an article on a paper showing how many people hitchike to save money rather than going on a bus.

What Paper? The Sun?

When I hitchhike it's not to save money usually, it's because I like the roundabout way of doing things!!!

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