Hitchhiking
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crackerjack
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Does anyone ever hitch anymore? I used to regularly between Manchester and London and there'd always be people waiting at service stations. Now it's a rarity. hitchers are scared of who's gonna pick them up, drivers of who they're letting in their car. All a bit sad, like kids not beiing allowed to play outside...*contemplates anecdote about everyone leaving their back doors unlocked*.
Stories? One mate got kicked out of a car when the dirver found out she was Iraqi (time of GW1).
Another got a lift with a bloke who stopped for a piss and asked him if he'd mind holding his cock while he did it cos he had a hand ailment.
I went to a party in London, got a hitch at Brent Cross (after about an hour's sleep) by a bloke in a van with clapped out heating who proffered me his half-drunk bottle of wine and spliff. He lectured me for an hour aboout how his generation (the 60s) had given us (this was about 1990) everything - music, drugs - and we'd fucked it all up. Man, that was a long journey. And he only took me as far as the M6.
That's about it - mostly hitching is just lots and lots of waiting and lifts with people who want you to listen to them. "You work in a record shop? Check my tapes out. I've got all kinds: Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner."
Stories? One mate got kicked out of a car when the dirver found out she was Iraqi (time of GW1).
Another got a lift with a bloke who stopped for a piss and asked him if he'd mind holding his cock while he did it cos he had a hand ailment.
I went to a party in London, got a hitch at Brent Cross (after about an hour's sleep) by a bloke in a van with clapped out heating who proffered me his half-drunk bottle of wine and spliff. He lectured me for an hour aboout how his generation (the 60s) had given us (this was about 1990) everything - music, drugs - and we'd fucked it all up. Man, that was a long journey. And he only took me as far as the M6.
That's about it - mostly hitching is just lots and lots of waiting and lifts with people who want you to listen to them. "You work in a record shop? Check my tapes out. I've got all kinds: Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner."
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I hithced to a rave outside Oxford - Perception! - in the summer of 1990. I met a rat-like raver in the centre of town who had me stand guard outside a sports shop while he pinched a whistle.
He then took me to the "Botley squat" to score hash and acid. We hitched a lift out of Oxford with a creepy hot air balloon enthusiast and on to the rave with some blokes from Taunton in dungarees and straw hats.
So I have very happy memories of hitching.
He then took me to the "Botley squat" to score hash and acid. We hitched a lift out of Oxford with a creepy hot air balloon enthusiast and on to the rave with some blokes from Taunton in dungarees and straw hats.
So I have very happy memories of hitching.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Sounds like a set-up from Beadle's About.
I went hitching in Mexico once but it was some special day when every one was going home to visit their families or something and no-one would pick us up. Eventually one guy gave us a lift to the bus station about three miles down the road and we took the hint and got the bus.
crackerjack
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That was a bit near the knuckle.