Hitch Hiking

Nomis21 · 07-09-2014 12:40AM #1

Has anyone Hitchhiked recently? How did it go?

I am a 50+ male couchsurfing host and have hitchhiked with many couchsurfers around Ireland (All females). We always got lifts within half an hour and sometimes within minutes. never got stuck anywhere. The more remote the road, the more likely a car was to stop for us when it came along.

The only place I ever had to give up was trying to hitch out of Dublin.

Why is it that the people who tell you that hitchhiking is dangerous have never actually done it?

Do you stop for hitchhikers?

Mr. RED · 07-09-2014 12:44AM

Where y'headed?

wazky · 07-09-2014 12:45AM

If ever there comes a time I want to be the main feature on the Six O'clock News, as a dismembered corpse somewhere in a remote location, I will pick up a hitchhiker.

degsie · 07-09-2014 12:49AM

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=s5wLVJuZG8_5yQTghYKIDg&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DlS-af9Q-zvQ&cd=1&ved=0CBwQ3ywwAA&usg=AFQjCNH0SeXYSB8nPd-KGxPQgQzqhCQW5g

Duggy747 · 07-09-2014 12:50AM

Main thing to remember is to never pick up someone who looks like Rutger Hauer.

Nomis21 · 07-09-2014 12:56AM

Mr. RED wrote: »

Where y'headed?

Didn't ya read the sign I was holding? It said "HOME".

Nomis21 · 07-09-2014 12:57AM

wazky wrote: »

If ever there comes a time I want to be the main feature on the Six O'clock News, as a dismembered corpse somewhere in a remote location, I will pick up a hitchhiker.

I would rather dismember the drivers who DIDN'T stop for me.

Nomis21 · 07-09-2014 12:59AM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Main thing to remember is to never pick up someone who looks like Rutger Hauer.

Erm Why...?

nc19 · 07-09-2014 01:04AM

Nomis21 wrote: »

Has anyone Hitchhiked recently? How did it go?

I am a 50+ male couchsurfing host and have hitchhiked with many couchsurfers around Ireland (All females). We always got lifts within half an hour and sometimes within minutes. never got stuck anywhere. The more remote the road, the more likely a car was to stop for us when it came along.

The only place I ever had to give up was trying to hitch out of Dublin.

Why is it that the people who tell you that hitchhiking is dangerous have never actually done it?

Do you stop for hitchhikers?

Why should they get a free ride??

If I saw anybody over the age of 30 hitching I would think to myself why should they get a free ride. Why can they have lived 30 yrs and not done enough with their life to afford a car or at the very least a bus ticket

Mr. RED · 07-09-2014 01:09AM

nc19 wrote: »

Why should they get a free ride??

If I saw anybody over the age of 30 hitching I would think to myself why should they get a free ride. Why can they have lived 30 yrs and not done enough with their life to afford a car or at the very least a bus ticket

You're off your head brah! I wouldn't hitchhike myself; but I used stop and pick up folk up the odd time.

I mean come on! It's pretty badass;

here I am - Stop your car and let me in!! I don't give a f*** which one of you pick me up!! Not a single f***! All I need to know is; are we going in the same direction!?!!

Karl Stein · 07-09-2014 01:10AM

Hitch-hiked to Killarney on a whim with a friend once. Went on the piss and spent all our monies. Slept in a bus luggage bay with about 20 other randomers but got evicted about 6am by the Hotel staff who worked the grounds of car park.

Went to the edge of Killarney town and stuck out the thumb, got a lift off Dracula.. well, a guy known as 'Paddy Drac' from Dublin who was going to Waterfjord, via Cork, to do a gig for some kids. We must have looked a state but Paddy Drac was a Boss and gave us a lift anyway in his big Ford Granada.

Fair play to Paddy Drac.

Mr. RED · 07-09-2014 01:13AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

Hitch-hiked to Killarney on a whim with a friend once. Went on the piss and spent all our monies. Slept in a bus luggage bay with about 20 other people but got evicted about 6am.

Went to the edge of Killarney town and stuck out the thumb, got a lift off Dracula.. well, a guy known as 'Paddy Drac' from Dublin who was going to Waterfjord, via Cork, to do a gig for some kids. We must have looked a state but Paddy Drac was a Boss and gave us a lift anyway.

Fair play to Paddy Drac.

This IS the craic you see. Some people just wouldn't understand! Fair play Paddy Drac. Ledge.

lila1 · 07-09-2014 01:14AM

Dont know if they still do it but years ago myself and my friend hitched lifts everywhere well dont know if you would call it hitchiking but we just stuck out our thumb. We were only 14 qt the time, but if my daughter was to do it now there is no way i would let her. How times have changed

Ruu · 07-09-2014 01:15AM

I pick up hitch hikers so I can have someone to talk to, offer them to come around to house for a cup of tea. You know, normal stuff.

Mr. RED · 07-09-2014 01:16AM

lila1 wrote: »

Dont know if they still do it but years ago myself and my friend hitched lifts everywhere well dont know if you would call it hitchiking but we just stuck out our thumb. We were only 14 qt the time, but if my daughter was to do it now there is no way i would let her. How times have changed

Alas it is a dying art.

To Paddy Drac!!

Call Me Jimmy · 07-09-2014 01:17AM

lila1 wrote: »

well dont know if you would call it hitchiking but we just stuck out our thumb

Yea that's it alright that's the one

Karl Stein · 07-09-2014 01:18AM

Mr. RED wrote: »

This IS the craic you see. Some people just wouldn't understand! Fair play Paddy Drac. Ledge.

Ha, yeh! Just googled 'Paddy Drac' and he's on FB still doing his thing. Fair play Mr Drac! Thanks for the spin nearly 20 years ago

Mr. RED · 07-09-2014 01:19AM

Nice!

KKkitty · 07-09-2014 01:19AM

Ruu wrote: »

I pick up hitch hikers so I can have someone to talk to, offer them to come around to house for a cup of tea. You know, normal stuff.

Hope you offer a nice hot bath or shower, maybe
a bed for a nnight or 4

Nomis21 · 07-09-2014 01:19AM

nc19 wrote: »

Why should they get a free ride??

If I saw anybody over the age of 30 hitching I would think to myself why should they get a free ride. Why can they have lived 30 yrs and not done enough with their life to afford a car or at the very least a bus ticket

Perhaps they do it for fun? Thats why I do it anyway.

fleet_admiral · 07-09-2014 01:22AM

I stopped picking them up when the price of lime went up

keano25 · 07-09-2014 01:24AM

Pulled in on the mobile once, looked in the mirror and saw this fella with a rucksack coming up behind me like Linford Christie.

Put two and two together and started to slowly drive along the hard shoulder.

After about 50 yards he gave me the finger, I gave him a beep and off I went.

Was quiet funny at the time.

dr.bollocko · 07-09-2014 01:27AM

Nomis21 wrote: »

Has anyone Hitchhiked recently? How did it go?

I am a 50+ male couchsurfing host

You really need to think about minimising the likelihood of getting picked in a lineup dude.

Nomis21 · 07-09-2014 01:30AM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

You really need to think about minimising the likelihood of getting picked in a lineup dude.

Funny you say that because the guards used to pay me 20e a go to be available for lineups.

blowin3 · 07-09-2014 08:21AM

Had to drop my wive to catch a 530am bus to Dublin. On the way back home I came across two dicks thumbing at a zebra crossing one was acting like he was about to cross the other when the traffic stopped going to the window looking for a spin home. Needless to say I smiled and said sorry and moved on

Menas · 07-09-2014 08:26AM

I used to hitch a lift when I was a student and broke, but that happened in the 80s. Most of the 80s was a blackout for me but I presume it went ok.

whisky_galore · 07-09-2014 08:35AM

Hitch hiking is the preserve of foreign backpackers and the 'professional' drinker.

C.K Dexter Haven · 07-09-2014 08:56AM

Maybe people come to Ireland these days more prepared and with more money. It was certainly the norm up to the early 90s. I saw two female backpackers a few weeks ago in Galway hitching from Spiddal into the city. Not 1 car stopped in 1/2 hour. I was a bit surprised at that to be honest, I would have thought someone would have stopped.

dmc17 · 07-09-2014 08:57AM

Nomis21 wrote: »

Erm Why...?

He's terrible at making conversation!

blowin3 · 07-09-2014 08:58AM

C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »

Maybe people come to Ireland these days more prepared and with more money. It was certainly the norm up to the early 90s. I saw two female backpackers a few weeks ago in Galway hitching from Spiddal into the city. Not 1 car stopped in 1/2 hour. I was a bit surprised at that to be honest, I would have thought someone would have stopped.

With two I might stop one girl on her own no way. People are too worried now a days .

Hercule Poirot · 07-09-2014 09:27AM

I used to "thumb" (as we call it in Mayo) from Galway to home and back no bother - the closer to home the easier it got obviously.

But a big shout must go to John, never got his second name, in 2006 - was thumbing to Knock Airport from Galway to catch a hastily booked flight to visit a sick relative, he was going to Charlestown but drove me all the way to the airport - and when he stopped at a petrol station, not only did he leave me alone in his car (I could have done anything!) he came back with a bottle of pop and a Mars bar because "I looked hungry"

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