Friday joke: "Phantom Car"

An oldie, but a goodie:

This guy was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night in the middle of a severe thunderstorm. Time passed slowly and no cars went by. It was raining so hard he could hardly see his hand in front of his face.

Suddenly, he saw a car moving slowly, approaching and appearing ghost-like in the rain. It slowly crept toward him at about 3 or 4 miles an hour.

Desperate for a ride, the guy jerked open the passenger side door and jumped in the car and closed the door. Only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the steering wheel. The car slowly started moving faster and faster and the guy was terrified, too scared to think of jumping out and running. He saw that the car was slowly approaching a sharp curve; still too scared to jump out, he started to pray and begged for his life. He was sure the ghost car would go off the road into the bayou and he would surely drown, when, just before the curve, a hand appeared thru the driver's window and turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend.

Paralyzed with fear, the guy watched the hand re-appear every time they reached a curve. Finally, scared near-to-death, the guy had all he could take and jumped out of the car and ran to town. Wet and in shock, he went into a diner and, voice quavering, ordered black coffee, then told everybody about his super-natural experience.

A silence enveloped and everybody got goose bumps when they realized the guy was telling the truth and was not just some drunk.

About 15 minutes later, two guys soaking wet walked into the diner and one says to the other, "Look Boudreaux, there's that idiot that rode in our car when we were pushing it down the hill to the service station in the rain."