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Have you ever hitchhiked?

  • So I saw a hitchhiker the other day on my way to work and I wondered where he was going. And then I was talking to my mom about it and she said hitchhiking was pretty common in the 60's and 70's. She told me about how her and her friends used to hitchhike out to Grand Haven and back in the summer and one of my uncles actually hitched all the way to Vegas.lol

    Anyway, I've always thought it would be kind of adventurous to hitchhike somewhere, and you might even meet some pretty cool people along the way.thumbsup

    Anyone here ever hitchhiked anywhere?

    y2kMgrad ●

  • TS21905 ●

  • I used to hitch hike everywhere. Met a lot of interesting people and had some good times. Those were the days when a high percentage of the population were in party mode a high percentage of the time. Everyone had a joint and there was not a big stigma against drinking alcohol on the road. I regret very little about this aspect of my wayword youth. It's a different world now. Hitchhikers and those that pick them up are looked at as freaks or worse.

    Beastial

  • Yes. Quite a bit when I was a younger , I loved it - one of the last true freedoms.. I know its pretty much obsolete now in the Midwest/East but i live out west and it is still a very common practice here, outside of major metro areas anyway.

    HarmostThere

  • T.S. said...

    Yes.

    where'd you go?

    y2kMgrad ●

  • Hitched back home for the weekend from MSU back around '80-81. Took me three rides to get 70 miles. First one that picked me up was a fairly hot single chick, which was kind of a surprise, but times were different.

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    Floyd Robertson

  • JorgeMSU78

  • hitchhiking is a lost art.(yeah ok,it was never an 'art'). hitched from ft. lauderdale to new orleans and then from NO. back to mi. also hitched from LA to mi. all this was back in the 70's. it doesn't happen in the modern era,cuz no one will pick anyone up,the dark ages were a more trusting time.

    riflefl21918

  • I hitch hiked from DTW to East Lansing in the summer of 1997 when my ride didn't show up to pick me up. I had a roommate who had hitch hiked long distances a few times and he told me that the key was to make a sign, that way you don't look like a weirdo or a creep. So I made one that just said East Lansing Please.

    I stood out in the taxi/sedan area and within 10 minutes an alumnus coming back from a business trip offered me a ride to Howell in his Town Car (he had a driver picking him up). He was in his early 40s and a die hard Spartan. It was one do the coolest things that ever happened to me. In Howell I waited at the Westbound enterance ramp on 59 and a guy picked me up and gave me a ride to Okemos. Keep in mind this was all per cell phone so the calls I made to try to get a ride last minute were all made by pay phone. My roommate picked me up in Okemos.

    The first guy gave me a lot of good career and resume advice (I was starting my last semester the following week). He gave me his business card and I found it in an old box a few years ago. I looked him up and found him on LimkedIn and sent him an email thanking him for the ride 10 years later but he never replied. That was awkward. It made me feel like a little bit of a stalker.

    Funny side note to the story. The trip was a last minute decision to ride down to Missouri with a buddy of mine from Michigan who was a student at SWMS. I decided to go about 4 minutes before we left and threw some clothes in a grocery bag. His roommate's dad worked for American Airlines so I was able to fly stand by to get back to EL for around $20. I didn't want to fly with a grocery bag so I borrowed an old back pack to take as my carry on. It turns out that the back pack had been stored in a closet where a cat had sprayed its scent. You couldn't tell that the backpack smelled because his entire apartment stank like cat spray.....not piss but that God-awful, wretched spray smell. Nobody ever mentioned it but I'm sure it stunk both on the plane and in the cars.

    Ernie Pantusso

  • ri.fle.fl. said...

    hitchhiking is a lost art.(yeah ok,it was never an 'art'). hitched from ft. lauderdale to new orleans and then from NO. back to mi. also hitched from LA to mi. all this was back in the 70's. it doesn't happen in the modern era,cuz no one will pick anyone up,the dark ages were a more trusting time.

    You'd be pleased to know that the hitching culture you speak of does still exist, just not in too many environs in the US. I hitched quite a bit 10-15 years ago, mostly in other countries though ..

    HarmostThere

  • ItsInYorMouth ●

  • A few months ago, John Waters hitched across the entire US and had nothing but wonderful things to report. I think the article is somewhere on NYT.

    Howler

  • Howler said...

    A few months ago, JOHN WATERS hitched across the entire US and had nothing but wonderful things to report. I think the article is somewhere on NYT.

    I'm sure it's a great experience if you like getting buttfucked. NTTAWWT

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    I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.

    GhettoHeisman ●

  • you can always fight back,bitch.

    riflefl21918

  • One of my buddies dads hitchhiked from Haslett to Mexico and back to pick up pot one summer with another buddy the summer before their senior year of high school. Banged some bitches on the way, partied a lot, ended back up in Haslett with a little less than an ounce when all was said and done. Sounds like it was a pretty sweet trip though.

    ColonelAngus

  • from New Buffalo Michigan to E. Lansing. Once w friends and once by myself.

    Also from Santa Barbara to LA on my 2nd day in California.

    Tired it in europe and could not get a ride.

    Once was so broke I could not afford a bus, so hitchhiked from Hollywood to West L.A. where I lived. Got picked up by a dude in corvette and we went to another dude's house and smoked some weed. Pretty sure they both were gay.Then he drove me to my place, dropped me off and he drove off.

    I was pretty stupid I guess. Oh well. No regrets.

    SilverSpartan

  • Myself and 3 other people hitched a ride after a country concert in the Chicago area. It was kinda sketchy. I'm pretty sure the driver was wasted. They drove us right to our friend's place but I was pretty happy to get out of the car when we got there.

    Stils

  • Hell no. I would never wanna be picked up by somebody who would wanna pick me up

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    Dr Leo Spaceman

  • Constantly. Never even gave it a second thought. Fro east Lansing to: ann arbor, western, central, ferris, and Chicago. 80, 81. One time coming back fro ferris a van picked me up it was Sunday and I just wanted to get home. Three guys said they'd take me all the way back to my dorm but the lord told them to pick me up and they were going to tell me about their savior all the way there. That was probably the worst ride ever.

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    DWags ●

  • Spaceman....

    The time I went to E. lansing with 2 other guys...(yes they picked up 3 of us)...it was by a family of farmers who wanted to "stop by and see the campus" for the first time in years. They were in awe of the football stadium and we felt pretty good giving them a little rolling tour of campus as they "oooh and ahhhd."

    Nothing wrong with them or us...just a simpler time perhaps.

    SilverSpartan

  • Ernie Pantusso said...

    I hitch hiked from DTW to East Lansing in the summer of 1997 when my ride didn't show up to pick me up. I had a roommate who had hitch hiked long distances a few times and he told me that the key was to make a sign, that way you don't look like a weirdo or a creep. So I made one that just said East Lansing Please.

    I stood out in the taxi/sedan area and within 10 minutes an alumnus coming back from a business trip offered me a ride to Howell in his Town Car (he had a driver picking him up). He was in his early 40s and a die hard Spartan. It was one do the coolest things that ever happened to me. In Howell I waited at the Westbound enterance ramp on 59 and a guy picked me up and gave me a ride to Okemos. Keep in mind this was all per cell phone so the calls I made to try to get a ride last minute were all made by pay phone. My roommate picked me up in Okemos.

    The first guy gave me a lot of good career and resume advice (I was starting my last semester the following week). He gave me his business card and I found it in an old box a few years ago. I looked him up and found him on LimkedIn and sent him an email thanking him for the ride 10 years later but he never replied. That was awkward. It made me feel like a little bit of a stalker.

    Funny side note to the story. The trip was a last minute decision to ride down to Missouri with a buddy of mine from Michigan who was a student at SWMS. I decided to go about 4 minutes before we left and threw some clothes in a grocery bag. His roommate's dad worked for American Airlines so I was able to fly stand by to get back to EL for around $20. I didn't want to fly with a grocery bag so I borrowed an old back pack to take as my carry on. It turns out that the back pack had been stored in a closet where a cat had sprayed its scent. You couldn't tell that the backpack smelled because his entire apartment stank like cat spray.....not piss but that God-awful, wretched spray smell. Nobody ever mentioned it but I'm sure it stunk both on the plane and in the cars.

    This is a cool story bro. I am pretty cautious in general but would definitely give someone a ride if I was headed that way and they had a sign saying "East Lansing". Call me a sucker....

    I have never done it and can't see it happening in my future. Good buddy of mine, though, hitchhiked in the mid 90's from the Canadian Rockies back to EL somehow. Not quite sure how he pulled that off. I think he must have smoked a lot of pot back in those days. I'll have to hit him up for this story again.

    Knibb High football rules

    WhiteBoyHatcher ●

  • ri.fle.fl. said...

    you can always fight back,bitch.

    I appreciate the advice but I think I'll just drive myself. Obviously you don't know who John Waters is though or you'd have gotten the joke.

    Play

    John Waters: Coming Out Is So Square

    http://bigthink.com John Waters knew he was gay the moment he saw Elvis Presley, but people rarely asked him about his sexuality because they feared it was something "worse" than homosexuality. "They were afraid to hear the answer," he says.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/GbgU8rxU5iU
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    I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.

    GhettoHeisman ●

  • Glennie, MI.

    TS21905 ●

  • Yeah after backpacking to get back to my vehicle. Pretty common. One time I met a dude while picking up a permit, and he decided to do the hike from the opposite direction, drove to the other trailhead, and hid the keys to his car for me to drive back a few days later.

    mears ●

  • It's how I got to school and back home in the 80's. Holding a sign that read MSU and wearing a backpack at the on ramp of 696 in Southfield never failed.

    duffy munn ●

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