Remember seeing hitchhikers every now and then when i was on long trips in the car with my dad.
never seen one since i started driving back in 2005
I frequently pick up hitch-hikers because I sometimes hitch myself. I've met a lot of interesting people both ways.
Have often got rides with middle aged and older women who proceed to tell me that they seldom pick up hitch-hikers. Got a ride with a couple of tattooed skinheads once. They looked a bit dodgy but I'd been standing by that motorway ramp for a long time and they turned out to be normal enough blokes.
I've picked up a lot of foreigners travelling the world on the cheap too. Had some very interesting discussions about their home countries and their experiences on their travels.
One English chap reckoned my '71 Wolseley reminded him of his granddad's Rover.
I’m not condoning this in anyway, but it is quite funny.
I’m talking 1980 maybe 81 here. A work mate got banned from driving, but he was seeing a girl in Whitley Bay, about 3 hrs drive away, so on Friday after work he used to hitch. Got picked up by a bloke in an Escort van, they get chatting when they get going a bit.
Bloke sez where you headed, Whitley Bay sez my mate. Bloke sez I’m only going as far as Leeds, no problem sez my mate, I’ll hitch another lift from there.
Bloke driving sez, it’s ok you can have this, I nicked it 15 mins before I picked you up 😮