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Do people still hitchhike?
Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:38 am
Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:38 am
Have you here hitchhiked or picked up a hitchhiker?
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Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:42 am to Richard Grayson
Haven’t seen anyone with a thumb out in years. I do remember seeing bumbs with signs at intersections but they are looking for money more than anything.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:43 am to Richard Grayson
I have never actually hitchhiked but about 15 years ago I ran out of gas on the interstate and was walking to the next exit. A trucker that was bobtailing stopped and gave me a ride to the exit waited for me to buy a can and gas and drove me back and dropped me off across from my car.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:44 am to Richard Grayson
Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:48 am to Richard Grayson
Does hiking the AT count?
Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:50 am to Richard Grayson
CSB here.
Driving out of Hobby Airport last night there was a bum by the interstate walking around holding up a styrofoam top lid from a to go container like a sign.
There was nothing written on it but he was walking back and forth. Holding it up to his chest and pointing at it.
He must have been higher than heaven.
Driving out of Hobby Airport last night there was a bum by the interstate walking around holding up a styrofoam top lid from a to go container like a sign.
There was nothing written on it but he was walking back and forth. Holding it up to his chest and pointing at it.
He must have been higher than heaven.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:53 am to Richard Grayson
I've seen a thumb thrown up a few times over the last ten years... but it's rare.
Definitely not a norm anymore... to many killed in that situation I assume.
Definitely not a norm anymore... to many killed in that situation I assume.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 12:55 am to Richard Grayson
I see it pretty often
Posted on 12/11/22 at 1:02 am to Richard Grayson
Gave one a ride earlier, just across the parish line, in the backseat of my police car.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 1:12 am to Richard Grayson
I e seen people looking for rides. They don't stick a thumb out anymore but they just look at you and I guess if you are open to picking people up you know the look. Not for me but I guess somebody is picking them up
Posted on 12/11/22 at 2:56 am to Richard Grayson
Used to do it all the time while backcountry skiing. Park at top of pass, hike to whatever we wanted to ski, hit the highway lower down and thumb it back to the top.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 4:45 am to Richard Grayson
Thumbed all over the USA back in the late 60s/early 70s.
Got picked up by nice folks and some real creepers.
Got picked up by nice folks and some real creepers.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 6:41 am to Richard Grayson
Never. A bunch of trimmigrants pop up on the northbound exits every fall in Northern CA trying to hitchhike to the emerald triangle, but outside of weed season I rarely see hitchhikers.
This post was edited on 12/11/22 at 6:42 am
Posted on 12/11/22 at 7:44 am to Richard Grayson
Not since the "Hitcher" movie came out.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 7:49 am to Richard Grayson
I picked up a couple hitchhiking last summer, their car broke down out the road and I gave them a drive back to their place. Maybe 30 minute drive.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 7:50 am to Richard Grayson
If you've hitchhiked before, you probably have seen many winters in your life.
Was pretty common in the 60's and started dwindling in the late 70's. I'd say it was pretty non-existent by the 80's.
You meet some pretty interesting folks by hitchhiking, to say the least.
With all the weirdos out there wouldn't want to hitchhike to get a ride or wouldn't want to pick up a hitchhiker.
Was pretty common in the 60's and started dwindling in the late 70's. I'd say it was pretty non-existent by the 80's.
You meet some pretty interesting folks by hitchhiking, to say the least.
With all the weirdos out there wouldn't want to hitchhike to get a ride or wouldn't want to pick up a hitchhiker.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 7:54 am to Richard Grayson
We used to pull on the shoulder ahead of the hitch hiker and when they got to the car, floor it and leave them standing there. 
Posted on 12/11/22 at 7:54 am to Richard Grayson
There's a couple people in my lil town that hitchhike. One normally just walks all the time, a couple days ago I seen him with his thumb out. If they walking to/from work I'll pick them up from time to time.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 8:32 am to Richard Grayson
As a young teenager I did hitchhike between the River parishes. I liked a girl about 15 miles up River, rode my bicycle sometimes, and hitchhiked the other times. It was safe back in the 60s.
Posted on 12/11/22 at 8:37 am to Richard Grayson
My MIL (no pics) grew up in Los Angeles in the 50’s and picked up a Marine hitchhiking back to San Diego. They are still married.
She also hopped freight trains.
She also hopped freight trains.
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