Hitchhikers

[Sowelu]

Do you pick up hitchhikers?
Do you feel guilty for passing them by?
If you do pick up hitchhikers, what makes you think that one will not cause you harm? (not saying that all do!)
Just Curious:wave:

[Æon Flux]

Nope, I don't pick up hitchikers., (then again I don't drive)
I wouldn't because I think it's an unessecary risk. Then again I feel kinnda guilty not doing it because they could be nice people and end up ín some idiots car...

[Faeawyn]

No...I never ever pick up hitchhikers. Sometimes I feel bad when it's super hot out and they're standing out in the sun....but they're usually so filthy. If I had a pickup, I might let one jump in the back.....but otherwise, no. You just never know whats happened to them to put them in that type of situation. Some suffer from mental illness....others just fell on hard times. But you just don't know their level of desperation.

I might pick up a little old lady with no cell phone and a broken down car. But thats it.

[Tzhebee]

No I don't pick them up...and yes I feel guilty about it. But I have kids I need to think about, and for every 1 billion good people...there are still the psycho's....and with MY luck.... *sigh*

The closest thing to a "hitchiker" I picked up was a little old lady sitting on a bus bench in the pooring rain...because I knew the bus went by on it's last run 10 minutes prior.

I did bring a homeless person home with me on thanksgiving-eve once though, and gave him a nice meal and warm place to sleep. *shrug*

[Yvonne Belisle]

i don't take chances like that.

[Nature's Breath]

Yes I have picked up hitchhikers.....and although I have never actually tried to hitchhike I have sometimes been walking somewhere and accepted a ride with a stranger

I do judge it on my instincts-which are normanlly pretty good

But as to the harm bit well I guess a few reasons firstly I've felt threatened by at least 5 people -all those incidents happened at my home (twice with stangers), second if its my fate to come to harm I will and I guess most importantly.....I will not live my life controlled by fear....and if that means I come to harm then its a consquence I have to accept, but I know if I had let fear control me I would have missed many amazing things happening in my life and never met some fantastic people

[Sowelu]

No I don't pick them up...and yes I feel guilty about it. But I have kids I need to think about, and for every 1 billion good people...there are still the psycho's....and with MY luck.... *sigh*

The closest thing to a "hitchiker" I picked up was a little old lady sitting on a bus bench in the pooring rain...because I knew the bus went by on it's last run 10 minutes prior.

I did bring a homeless person home with me on thanksgiving-eve once though, and gave him a nice meal and warm place to sleep. *shrug*

I'd pick you up if you were hitchhiking!:heybaby: and take you home:heybaby: then:dinnertim that is...of course...unless ya had a twitchy eye.....a lazy foot....drooled.....and talked to your invisible friends....but than again I'd still throw ya a skateboard attatched to a rope off my bumber and get ya where ya needed to go!:hugz:

[Sowelu]

So far I have only picked up one hitchhiker and it was a mom and her kid.

[RowanMegaera]

I've never picked up a hitchhiker, but I have bought someone a bus ticket.

[Catiana]

I don't pick up hitchhikers its just not worth taking a chance. But we have given someone a ride who's car broke down and we took them to the gas station. And one time when my car broke down I did accept a ride from someone. I actually turned one down and accepted from someone else because I had a bad feeling about the first one and a good feeling about the second.

[Theognome]

I've picked up hitchhikers before, but I haven't lately.

[Dio]

I picked up a couple of hitchhikers once. But I knew them. They were two of my brother's friends visiting from Germany. I was driving home from work when I saw the girls trying to hitch a ride. I stopped my car and told them to get in. They told me they were trying to get to California. I chastised them, and drove them to the bus station. They begged me not to tell my brother because apparently he had told them not to hitch as well.

[Nature's Breath]

Actually on the dangers of hitchhiking my friend was injured hitchhiking once

They broke their thumb when the car didn't stop but hit thier hand!

[Faeawyn]

second if its my fate to come to harm I will and I guess most importantly.....I will not live my life controlled by fear....
This isn't about allowing your life to be controlled by fear....it's about being safe and thinking about consequences. Would you touch a hot burner because you refused to allow yourself to be afraid of it? Would you walk down a dark alley alone in a bad part of town? Your statement reminds me of the old joke about the guy drowning, and god thru him a life raft, a boat and a helicopter....

[Psypress]

I passed hitchhikers in a forested area a few years back. I would've picked them up, but my car was packed full (it was a road trip) so I had no room for more people.
When I passed them, I looked in the rear-view mirror and they full out MOONED me. Like, pants to the ankles! It was hilarious!

[BelovedDru]

Do you pick up hitchhikers?
Do you feel guilty for passing them by?
If you do pick up hitchhikers, what makes you think that one will not cause you harm? (not saying that all do!)
Just Curious:wave:


No--mostly because of movies like House of a Thousand Corpses. *shivers*
I do feel guilty sometimes, because maybe they really need to get somewhere and they just don't have the money or means of transportation...

[johenn123]

not after the texas chainsaw massacre, watching that film gives me the creeps, actually before that film none of my parents picked them up

[Nature's Breath]

This isn't about allowing your life to be controlled by fear....it's about being safe and thinking about consequences. Would you touch a hot burner because you refused to allow yourself to be afraid of it? Would you walk down a dark alley alone in a bad part of town? Your statement reminds me of the old joke about the guy drowning, and god thru him a life raft, a boat and a helicopter....

Yes but the vast majority of hitchhikers arn't going to hurt you the vast majority of really nice people!!! I wouldn't touch a hot burner coz I know it will hurt me but I would and have walked down a dark alley in the bad part of town....I lived down that alley what was I suppose to do?

Actually though there was a murder here recently ....a girl got on a bus and was killed by the driver....maybe she would have been safer hitchhiking?


Edit an I as said before I know the potenital consquences and quite happy to chance them. You are more likely to be attacked by somebody you know ....yikes I'd better not know anyone just in case

[Strega Del Vento]

Nope.. Never have, and never will. I'm a safety girl.

:)

[Karma Chameleon]

Do you pick up hitchhikers?

Nope, I never have.


Do you feel guilty for passing them by?

Not really. I don't know if the person is a serial killer or not, chances are the person is dirty and smells bad and I don't want to have to clean my the inside of the cab of my truck, and I have a lousy sense of direction.

[Amethyst Rose]

I'll never pick up a hitchhiker, and never have. My mom picked up a hitchhiker once and he tried to feel her up...uhg... I just couldn't do it. I also have no respect for those people who do hitchhike...I donno....just seems a bit low class to me. My appologies to anyone here who does it.

[moria636]

nope....you just can never tell if you can trust someone....on another note I hitched a ride twice.... the first time was fine...but the second time I got picked up by a guy I went to high school with and new pretty well... he stoped before I was to my house and locked the doors and grabbed me and well you can imagine... but I punch him and kicked him and unlocked the door by hand and ran home...

its just not safe... and its to bad those dangerous people ruin it....

[Mistress_Ravenshadow]

i dont pick them up.. my cousin does though as he used to often hitchhike himself.. he said however that he would only pick them up if they were neatly dressed and on their own.. there have been times when hes seen girls hitching but they have had guys hiding off to the side so he hasnt picked them up and he only picks hitchhikers up if he has no one else in the car with him..

[Teresa]

I used to have a car before the flood and no didn't pick up anyone that I did not know.Now I travel by foot alot but I do not look to take rides from strangers.My rose colored glasses come off now when my safety is at hand.I try to walk on the opposite side of the traffic as to not be in that situation.

[Valnorran]

Don't do it, don't feel guilty.

There's a difference between being ruled by fear and simple prudence, and fear exists for a reason. It's quite handy when self-preservation is on the line.

[Xander67]

Do you pick up hitchhikers?
NOPE

Do you feel guilty for passing them by?
NOPE

If you do pick up hitchhikers, what makes you think that one will not cause you harm? (not saying that all do!)
Just Curious:wave:

In my state it is illegal to pick them up and illegal to hitch hike..

you never know who or what they are up to, and The news is full of stories of Highway abductions.

[Goddess Rhiannon]

No, I don't pick them up...yes, I sometimes feel guilty.

[maldito]

Where I live there are a lot of students... and sometimes we don't have lot of money to go to our home-cities, so hitchhiker travel is a posibility, if you have economical problems. And so, people know that we're students and picks us up. I'm in the other side of the coin.
It's more like a tratition, in some places you can see dozens of people with te tumbs up asking for a ride.

[John_Mischief]

I've never ever SEEN a hitchhiker before! Of course, I don't drive, so even if I wanted to pick one of these nonexistant people up, I couldn't. And since I'm terribly uncomfortable around strangers, I wouldn't want to.

I've never hitchhiked before either. I've gotten stranded around the city a few times, but I just walked home. The buses stop running around 6 here on Sundays, which is really unconvenient

[~BEBZ~]

I will sometimes pick one up if I'm not alone. And yes, I feel awful when I pass them by. There was once this kid that my mom and I picked up cause it was the middle of the winter. We made him ride in the back of the truck 75 miles to where he was going. Felt bad cause he must of froze his butt off, but he really needed a ride and we weren't about to crowd him in the front of the cab with us.

I think it's awful you can't pick up hitchhikers anymore. :(

[merlo]

Yes, when I own a car I usually always pick 'em up. Unless they're all bloody holding a huge sharp object. Then I pull up past 'em, when they run close pull up some more, pull up again, again, till they stop running after me. I've hitched alot. Depending where you're at, it's a blast. That's how I met my son's mom. And a few other babes.

[Aconite]

nope, they scare me. Ive been picked up once, my friends dog was hit on the road(he was basically my dog, lived at my house unoficiialy), and i was crying and some old guy in a green car piced me up and drove me home, i never knew who he was, or said thankyou, i wish i knew.. i was 8 i think.. *is glad to be alive..*

[raminda]

I would never pick up a hitchhiker, I don't trust people nearly enough for that. I don't feel bad about it either.