official hitchhiking/thumbing thread

[dukeroyale]

there’s seems to be a few hitchhiking stories in the tinker thread so i thought an official thread was the way to go.

in the late 80s we had no way of getting to the local town to do the shopping so myself and my mother used to thumb it in a few times a week. you’d always get a lift from
someone. so, since then, once i'm
not in the work van and have space in the car i’d always pick up someone thumbing.

 

[dukeroyale]

i was on my way to dumplin one saturday afternoon and the was a wan on the motorway around watergrasshill so pulled in and gave her a lift. she was on her way to carlow. i said i might get her some bit of the way.

by around fermoy i could t handle her anymore. she was going to some hippy commune to build a hut with turf. she kept droning on and on about being off the grid and what have you. by mitchelstown i had to say it was the end of the line. i dropped her off by the roundabout on the by pass and went to a garage for a bar of chocolate and a can of coke.

thankfully by the time i got back to the roundabout she was gone. i hope she made it.

 

[PussyinBoots]

Bit off topic but the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was interviewed by police so often at his trucker firm that his staff nickname was Ripper

 

[dukeroyale]

i have a buddy who runs a rural pub. he was on his way home from cork one friday and picked up a french lad who was thumbing to killarney.

at the time it was his mother running the pub and she called mid route and asked him to swing by the cash and carry for supplies. he explained this to the french lad and he was happy enough to help out and load the car for my friend.

my buddy was happy with the help and the french fella was in no panic so he ended up driving him all the way to killarney as a thank you.

 

[Matlock]

I used to hitch hike a bit in college. Far more men than women were willing to give a lift (in my experience) and they would nearly always start the conversation by giving out to me for hitching!

 

[PussyinBoots]

I used to hitch hike a bit in college. Far more men than women were willing to give a lift (in my experience) and they would nearly always start the conversation by giving out to me for hitching!

Ever do any hanky panky with a lucky driver, Mattie?

 

[Ghoti]

I haven't seen a hitchhiker in decades. My axe gently pines for strange meat.

 

[Ghoti]

Ever do any hanky panky with a lucky driver, Mattie?

In my day, remuneration was grass, gas or ass. I hardly ever had the funds for the former two.

 

[dukeroyale]

I used to hitch hike a bit in college. Far more men than women were willing to give a lift (in my experience) and they would nearly always start the conversation by giving out to me for hitching!

i have a few buddies who used to thumb down to sherkin every summer. they’d basically split into two or three groups and fry and race each other there.

ah, but for the culture of suing through the hole if there was an accident you’d think it’d still go on.

 

[Carmona]

Jaysus, the memories. Hitched all the way down to Toulon one year before deciding maybe I should be at my sister's wedding after all. Turned around and hitched back up to Le Havre. Me mates were a bit non-plussed but I did leave em the tent!