Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker?

ElleEm · 24-05-2013 06:41PM #1

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?

cnocbui · 24-05-2013 06:43PM

Multiple times.

TheBody · 24-05-2013 06:44PM

Would depend on how big her boobs are.

The Backwards Man · 24-05-2013 06:44PM

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

Legs.Eleven · 24-05-2013 06:45PM

Yes.

I can't drive though.

zenno · 24-05-2013 06:45PM

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

Nodin · 24-05-2013 06:46PM

No Garda, never.

Sky King · 24-05-2013 06:48PM

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.

C.K Dexter Haven · 24-05-2013 06:49PM

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.

carrig2 · 24-05-2013 06:53PM

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.

WilyCoyote · 24-05-2013 06:55PM

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 · 24-05-2013 06:56PM

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.

zenno · 24-05-2013 06:56PM

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.

Popular Hardback · 24-05-2013 06:58PM

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

4zn76tysfajdxp · 24-05-2013 07:00PM

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?

SadieSue · 24-05-2013 07:01PM

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:

Popular Hardback · 24-05-2013 07:02PM

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.

carrig2 · 24-05-2013 07:02PM

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

hfallada · 24-05-2013 07:04PM

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

zenno · 24-05-2013 07:04PM

Kenzie Crooked Typhoid wrote: »

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.

JustAThought · 24-05-2013 07:07PM

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!

jaja321 · 24-05-2013 07:07PM

SadieSue wrote: »

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

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

WilyCoyote · 24-05-2013 07:09PM

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.

thunderdog · 24-05-2013 07:09PM

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.....

KERSPLAT! · 24-05-2013 07:10PM

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

Archeron · 24-05-2013 07:12PM

Do jockey backs count?

Czarcasm · 24-05-2013 07:13PM

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...

WilyCoyote · 24-05-2013 07:14PM

Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »

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

Wattle · 24-05-2013 07:22PM

Yes his head is still in my fridge.

Lightning Beard · 24-05-2013 07:23PM

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

...no.

zenno · 24-05-2013 07:26PM

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 ?.

Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker?

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