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Do you pick up hitch hikers?

I have and will. But I let it be known that I have a loaded .357 and they ride in the back of my truck.


I had a friend who picked up a hitchhiker and then got arrested for DUI 2 miles later. I bet that guy just couldnot wait to get to the Minnesota border. Lol
 
When I was 18, I hitch hiked from Florida to California. On the road for four days total. I got stuck in Houston Texas for a week, damn cops, you better have $20.00 on you or you're considered a vagrant.

Believe me, you don't want to do that now days or pick someone up. Even stopping to help change a tire or someone who says their out of gas, could be a setup. Happens everyday...
 
I hitched a ride many times in the late sixties. (a very different time from now).
One ride was an old rambler with three drunks. I was in the back with my feet up on empty beer cans.
After several -passing cars on blind curves I said This is where I want to get off. They said -but this is nowhere. I said that is where I want to be. Please stop and let me out. They did and I enjoyed being in "nowhere" for an hour or so.
Most of my hitching and giving rides were positive but those days are in the long ago past.
 
I teamed up with another guy in New Mexico, and this sweet looking blonde in a big Chrysler picked us up. She would be running about 70mph then she would speed up to 120 for awhile. (I-10). Found out in conversation that she was useing speed. "Hey, we are going to get off up here. Want to check out an old friend." She stated she drove straight through from Michigan.

Then an elderly couple had picked me up and after I climbed into the back seat, he pulled out a 357 and laid it on the console. I guess he thought that was going to keep me straight.

Well when he dropped me off, I thanked him and I told him that he shouldn't show his piece that way. I could have reached up and grabbed it, held it to your head and there wouldn't have been anything that you could have done. Keep it hidden but within reach. He said he never looked at it that way and thanked me!
 
On this topic--and the last time I stopped to help another in need. ---
That last time was in the early eighties I think. An older (40s or so sorry) woman with the hood up caught me in time to stop behind her on a freeway. (over heated and without coolent). (the car not her:))
This poor woman was without a clue or any other way for help.
All I could do was offer her a lift to the next exit where she could get proper assistance.
I could see in her eyes a fear she had for getting in my car which just added to her problem.
(I will always remember that look.)
I gave her a lift to a safe place for her only 1/4 mile up the road and as she got out of my car her thank you -to me- and the very changed look on her face sticks with me today as clear as a bell.
It can be tuff being without a ride and a place to go but today is not like 40 or 50 years ago.
 
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I'd stop for either of those 3 above. I can't leave a stranded women - besides traffic would be a mess if I didn't stop for her - yeah behind no me but think of the public service I would be doing the highway patrol....... oh yeah
 
When I was working for the highway company responsible for plowing and maintaining the Coq. (made famous on Highway thru Hell), I would stop and check on anyone who went in the ditch or was stopped on the side of the road. Then a local trucker was ambushed and beaten, left on the side of the highway at nite, he managed to get himself back into his rig and into the next town, into the hospital and now retired (forced due to injuries and trauma). After that.....nope....no way! I would just drive by and do my job unless it looked like a serious accident...then I would radio my foreman/crewleader and let them know to roll rescue crews.
 
The short answer is hell no unless they look like Bill Gates or Ted Turner and would possibly be very grateful for helping them out.
 
...Or Howard Hughes? Remember the movie Melvin and Howard?
 
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