re: Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker?

Yes and it was not rewarding as I feel he was not properly grateful

large marge

Op is correct.

I picked up a guy in rural Kentucky that went on and on in his corn pone accent how he had just killed his father.

My most recent flirt with death and dismemberment was a woman hitchhiker who was short and good looking.
My recipe for trouble.
Picked her up. Took her home.
Yes. I did. Recreations complicated by the bowie knife.

When I was a sophomore at LSU, pre-cellphones, I was driving through OK and broke down 20 miles outside Autry, OK. Named for Gene Autry BTW. Started walking and a guy in a no shite 70’s faded paint panel work van pulled over (serial killer van straight out of the movies). I got in against my better judgment and first thing I see is he has a giant sheathed Bowie knife sitting on the engine cowling between the seats. Meanwhile, I have my deer skinning knife in my right hand between my leg and the door. We looked sideways at each other for 20 miles each thinking the other was a serial killer and then he dropped me at the small town diner and went on his way.

When I owned my truck, I picked up several hitchhikers if they were willing to ride in the back.

Now that I'm back in a car, I haven't and probably won't.

4cubbies has

Not exactly hitch hikers, but I've picked up two different women.

One was the wee hours of the morning and I was on my way to work. I was stopped at a light and she came running into the street. I thought someone was chasing her or something and let her in. She said she needed a ride to her car "right up the road." The car kept getting farther away so I made her get her arse out in a grocery store parking lot. Pretty sure she was a prostitute.

Second time was similar, but I was on my way home from work in the middle of the night. Woman flagged me down in an intersection. I thought something was bad wrong again, but she just asked for a ride. Apparently her and her man had a fight and he left her. Drove her home to the projects.

You would be screwed anyway if they had a gun though

My freshman year in college I was driving down highland and saw a young black woman (early twenties) and 5 kids, the oldest being around 6 and youngest was newborn, I passed them up but turned around thinking they could use a ride. She asked me to bring her to a shelter downtown. I gave the kids a basketball I had in the backseat with the hope one day one of them becomes the next Lebron. I felt like that gave me some good karma, but my mom was pissed when i told her about it.

Lived in Crested Butte, CO for a few years, would pick up hitchhikers between Gunnison and Crested Butte, but not outside of that boundary. There were alot of nice locals that would go back and forth regularly between the two by hitchiking. Had to do it a couple of times myself when I would leave my car in Gunnison to get worked on, etc.