Hitchhiking dead

[MrHotDice]

Now I’m older than most on here but it seems that hitchhiking is a lost art. Many times on Sunday Lots of people with signs saying going back to UK from all over the mountains would be on the mountain parkway but not anymore. Just wondering if anyone has ever picked up a hit her?

 

[WildcatFan1982]

once. He tried to sell me on some ab workout video. Then I got arrested at a public restroom and he ran away but left a dead body in my car. Never again.

 

[funKYcat75]

It helps to show a little leg. Doesn't have to be your leg though. Right, Glen(n)?

 

[Glenn's take]

It helps to show a little leg. Doesn't have to be your leg though. Right, Glen(n)?

They were easy pickin' back in the day.

 

[Creed Bratton]

 

[Canned Heat]

To many tweekers on the roads now.

 

[BlueThruAndThru]

Don't forget your towel.

 

[Canned Heat]

Don't forget your towel.

For whatever weird reason (maybe Zoey Deschanel) I love that awful movie.

 

[P19978]

 

[JDHoss]

 

[Lord Z]

There are so many serial killers now that sometimes they cancel each other out. One picks up another one and 10 minutes later they're like "hey, I'm so embarrassed. I was going to kill you but you were going to kill me too." Awkward.

 

[H. Lecter]

Was about 8 or 10 years old and my dad was drunk and drove off the road or hit something and got two flat tires. No cell phones so we hitchhiked and got a ride from around rooster run to new hope!

 

[AustinTXCat]

 

[starchief5]

 

[Rebelfreedomeagle]

My grandmother had children later in life and was full of preWW2 stories. She was the driver of the family car in her early teens. She first drove a model T and soon upgraded to a model A. She grew up on a farm and Friday was the day they went to town. They would load the car up with farm goods and take off in the morning. She said hitchhiking was just a normal thing and only low people wouldn't let anyone walking hop on the running boards, with it being normal to have 4 to 6 people on the running boards by the time they got to town. I just can't get over imagining what that looked like bouncing over muddy ruts into town.

 

[birdforbogey]

I don't like riding with my wife, wtf would I want to ride with a complete stranger?

 

[the nail at the foul line]

When I was a kid and I would watch the CBS late movie, there was always super hot hitchhiker chicks out looking for a good time. I'm 55 now and I've seen one hot chick hitchhike in my life. I think those movies sold me a bill of goods. I couldn't wait to turn 16 so I could pick up babe's hitchhiking. I've seen one in 39 years.

 

[august-west]

My old man used to hitchhike from Norfolk, VA to western KY back in the late 60’s/early 70’s on the regular when he was in the Navy. I used to pick up people and let them ride in the back of my truck back in the day but too much risk now.

 

[MegaBlue05]

My pops grew up in Breckinridge County. He used to tell me stories about he and his brothers hitchhiking to Louisville on a semi regular basis. He said hitchhiking home was harder.

 

[CrittendenWildcat]

My ex-wife's father would hitchhike out of eastern Kentucky back in the 50's. Said one guy who picked him up propositioned him, and he had the guy stop and let him out immediately.

 

[KyCatFan]

I feel bad not helping someone but I just don't trust people anymore. I've never hitchhiked myself but I have been stranded on the side of the road a few times. Happened while I was in the Air Force (25+years ago) because I could only afford a piece of crap car. I had people stop and see if I needed a ride without me asking so I was lucky. Probably helps when you are in uniform just down the road from a base.

 

[KyCatFan]

By the way the first thing I thought of when reading the thread title was this.

 

[Col. Angus]

I’d pick that dude up.

 

[H. Lecter]

When I was a kid and I would watch the CBS late movie, there was always super hot hitchhiker chicks out looking for a good time. I'm 55 now and I've seen one hot chick hitchhike in my life. I think those movies sold me a bill of goods. I couldn't wait to turn 16 so I could pick up babe's hitchhiking. I've seen one in 39 years.

Well did you pick her up? What happened?

 

[KyCatFan]

Well did you pick her up? What happened?

 

[awf]

My foster folks live out in Pleasure Ridge......I would hitch hike from their place to his father's farm down on KY222 & WK Parkway......a couple of times I would carry my .22 rifle and my guitar........but usually just had a grocery sack with a few clothes in it......this was back in the 60's........I don't think I would last long on 31W riding my thumb with a guitar and rifle slung over my shoulder......I was 13-14yrs old.....

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Well did you pick her up? What happened?

I didn't have room.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

My foster folks live out in Pleasure Ridge......I would hitch hike from their place to his father's farm down on KY222 & WK Parkway......a couple of times I would carry my .22 rifle and my guitar........but usually just had a grocery sack with a few clothes in it......this was back in the 60's........I don't think I would last long on 31W riding my thumb with a guitar and rifle slung over my shoulder......I was 13-14yrs old.....

My former boss in another state talked about how he hitchhiked to college every time he went home. Said some guy grabbed his knee one time and he had him stop immediately and let him out.

My dad stressed to us to never pick up hitchhikers. One day I was following my father and there was this hitchhiker that looked like he just got back from the spahn ranch. My dad picked him up and gave him a ride. That WW II generation wasn't scared of anything.

 

[vhcat70]

Hh-ed a lot from age 12 to 22. Furthest was 80 miles from UK to home. Usually just 4-5 miles trips to/from Newport.

 

[ManitouDan]

Yeah I used to HH about 3-4 miles from South Portsmouth Ky to South Shore Ky to hang out with friends , play wiffle ball, go to the bowling alley to play video games and pinball. Still love pinball. And around here in rural Lewis Co I still pick up the occasional HH if I feel like it .

 

[ManitouDan]

Used to pick up the same guy at the first of the month , he would HH into town to buy beer every month when his check came in , he had epilepsy , but drank all the time . Once I picked him up going back home and he reached in a brown bag and popped a top on one . That was last time I picked him up going home

 

[Creed Bratton]

I used to pick up a neighbor I had who would hitchhike into town but there is no way I wuold pick up a total stranger anymore. There are just too many who would kill you for their next drug fix.

 

[LoavulLou]

It's probably been 40 years now since I've seen a hitchhiker that didn't look like he (or she) would stink up my car.

 

[hellfercertin]

70s picked up one outside Richmond Va rode to Lexington. He had no money, just weed.

 

[H. Lecter]

Used to pick up the same guy at the first of the month , he would HH into town to buy beer every month when his check came in , he had epilepsy , but drank all the time . Once I picked him up going back home and he reached in a brown bag and popped a top on one . That was last time I picked him up going home

That woulda been my last time picking him up also. People don’t know how to share

 

[420grover]

When I was a smartass kid, I used to pull over and wait for them to get up to the door then stomp the gas and roll out.

 

[Canned Heat]

 

[blubo]

hh from omaha to kc one friday night. it was like being on the moon in the middle of nowhere waiting for a car to come by, no houses, street lights in sight in any direction. such flat prarie you could see the curvature of the earth. . eery as hell. took the greyhound back to omaha. two of my friends hh together from ohio to calif and back, twice.

 

[kritikalcat]

This thread makes me want to pull the Vanagon out of the garage and hang the “Gas, Grass, or Ass / Nobody rides free!” Sign in the back window

 

[TIE543]

I've watched a few videos on Youtube of guys living the vagrant lifestyle by choice as an adventure (check out Vagrant Holiday on YT, it's pretty interesting actually) and it seems like hitchhiking is a lot easier in Europe and Japan than it is in the US these days.