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Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:37 pm to Possumslayer
Isn’t that a song?
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:42 pm to Flashback
quote:All the time when I was younger. A thousand stories. Longest trips were from BR to Ft. Leonard Wood and back and from NoLA to Miami Beach. Also hitched in France while hiking.
Anyone ever hitchhiked?
When we were dry on weekends in NoLA we would hitch up and down St. Charles Ave. for hours. We would always get picked up by stoners who were happy to share their largess. It never failed. Thank God for the opposable thumb.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:44 pm to Flashback
I have a great uncle (in his 80's now) who hitchhiked to LSU from New Roads every Monday morning (and home again Friday afternoon) for 4 years . he said he was never late for his Monday morning class. He said most of the people had him drive.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:49 pm to Flashback
Yes. I got in with a bag and they kept asking me what was in it... i kept staying none of your business, but they wouldn't let it go.
After about the 30th time, they asked i got annoyed and got out and just left the bag behind.
After about the 30th time, they asked i got annoyed and got out and just left the bag behind.
This post was edited on 8/26/24 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:54 pm to Flashback
I picked up a hitcher on I-10 in BR while I was headed to work downtown. I asked where he was going—“Scotland”. I thought I had picked up a crazy person
Then I realized he meant Scotlandville.
Then I realized he meant Scotlandville.
This post was edited on 8/26/24 at 5:20 pm
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:03 pm to Flashback
Hiking in Wales in late 80s and the bus I'd planned to catch to the next town did not run on Sundays. It was "only" ten miles, but I'd already hiked ten that morning so I tried hitchhiking for the only time in my life. I'd heard hitching was more accepted in Europe but no one picked me up.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:09 pm to Flashback
All the time. I used to hitchhike to school almost every day.
I'd hitch all over town.
Hitched from Kansas to Texas and back. From Michigan to Kansas. From San Mateo to Novato CA (scary stuff). San Mateo to SF (concert at the Fillmore). Tried to hitch back but ended up in San Jose. More scary rides back to San Mateo. Emporia KS to Grand Lake CO and back. (more scary stuff). I'm sure there are others I'm not remembering because I was addled.
I'd hitch all over town.
Hitched from Kansas to Texas and back. From Michigan to Kansas. From San Mateo to Novato CA (scary stuff). San Mateo to SF (concert at the Fillmore). Tried to hitch back but ended up in San Jose. More scary rides back to San Mateo. Emporia KS to Grand Lake CO and back. (more scary stuff). I'm sure there are others I'm not remembering because I was addled.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:16 pm to Flashback
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:18 pm to Flashback
quote:
Anyone ever hitchhiked?
Yes
quote:
after WW2 almost every male
Yes
Actually common from the introduction of the automobile through the 1970's. Like many things, died a sudden death with the election of Ronnie in 1980.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:25 pm to Cheese Grits
arse,grass, or gas
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:26 pm to Flashback
Only time I ever did it was from Ville Platte to Mamou. Rode in the bed of a truck. csb.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:32 pm to Flashback
Yeah! While in the Navy, In the early sixties , I could Hitch Hike and travel faster than by Greyhound Bus. I hitch Hiked from St Louis, Mo to Monroe La and back.
If you were in Military uniform almost every driver would stop and pick you up.
After the unrest in the late 60s it became unsafe to hitch hike, IMO.
If you were in Military uniform almost every driver would stop and pick you up.
After the unrest in the late 60s it became unsafe to hitch hike, IMO.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:36 pm to BottomlandBrew
used to hitch hike every weekend going back and forth to Nichols and LSU schools in the late 1960's. Last time I hitched was about 1979, having missed my ride back from a catholic fall festival to Cocodrie at 2 in the morning. I walked about 10 of the 20 miles when a car full of drunk cajuns stopped and gave me a ride. I was so grateful that I did not notice the driver weaving in the road, but it matched up with the non straight road so it was good. Got to the cabin just in time to catch the guided trip. slept on the boat floor
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:42 pm to kjntgr
quote:
arse,grass, or gas
More 60's and 70's and both male / female
Before that it was pretty much all male and if you were hard luck, your fellow Americans were kind
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:48 pm to Flashback
Posted on 8/26/24 at 4:50 pm to Flashback
I used to have an acquaintance on the north shore . He was crazy as shite but a fun guy to party with. He had a Nola bum that lived in his basement for about a month. They would get stoned and play guitars all night. He told a story of picking up a guy in Arkansas. They got a few miles in to the ride. The hitchhiker pulled out a pocket knife and said, “I’m crazy”. He pulled his 357 revolver out from under his seat and pistol whipped his passenger and said, “Not as crazy as me motherfricker”.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 5:00 pm to Flashback
I had a tonsillectomy when I was 14,1964.That was the days before private rooms.
There was 3 men in the room I was in,one of which had a big bandage across his throat.
Nosy me I asked him why he had the big bandage.He said he picked up a hitchhiker that slashed his throat with a knife and robbed him.
I never hitch hiked nor ever picked up one.
There was 3 men in the room I was in,one of which had a big bandage across his throat.
Nosy me I asked him why he had the big bandage.He said he picked up a hitchhiker that slashed his throat with a knife and robbed him.
I never hitch hiked nor ever picked up one.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 5:07 pm to Bridget O
Smoky Mountain rain
Posted on 8/26/24 at 5:20 pm to Flashback
In 1983, I drove my 1970 Cutlass to the Talladega 500 race with 2 of my friends and a large cooler full of beer. We were drinking and partying in the in field. Dale Earnhardt won the race. I forgot that I put my car keys in the cooler which we took out of the car with our folding lawn chairs. When the race was over, one of my friends tilted the cooler up to drain out the water. The nozzle was large enough that my keys got stuck in them. I couldn't find my keys. We assumed they were lost in the dirt or someone picked them up. We looked seemingly forever and a deputy sheriff told us we had to leave. Dale Earnhardt's crew was still at the track and we ran over to them to ask them to hotwire my car. They asked me if I had a power steering lock, and I said yes. They said they would be glad to hotwire my car and then they would laugh as I could only drive in circles. When we walked out of the infield to leave, an attendant told us to be back the next morning to pick up the car or they would have it towed.
So we hitch hiked back to Montgomery carrying and drinking a few beers with us at the beginning. Right after we tossed our last empty beer can, a State Trooper pulled up just a little too late to see that. We told him our story and he let us continue on. We got home after several partial way rides and some walking and eventually calling someone to come get us
We went back to the Speedway the next morning in one of my friends cars and my spare set of keys. We parked outside the speedway and walked up to the gate where the drivers and in field visitors bring their cars and RVs through. When we got there, the same attendant told us there was some kind of practicing going on with a bunch of Harley Davidson bikes on the track. He told us to not get our car on the track.
Well, that gave my friends the idea to take my bad arse Cutlass on the track. They talked me into doing that. I waited until the right moment, got my car on the track, passed a few motor cycles and was in the clear to drive around the track. I was going probably 100 mph through the tri oval turns 1 and 2 and speeding ahead to turn 3. Turn 3 and 4 at Talladega are very steep and looked like a steep wall coming at it at high speed. I chickened out and drove my car around the bottom flat part of those turns driving because I didn't know if my suspension could handle the curve. I stopped briefly and we crawled up the steep curve and then then jumped back in my car and took off to the gate to get out. The attendant tried to stop us but I just drove around him and we got away luckily without getting into any trouble.
So we hitch hiked back to Montgomery carrying and drinking a few beers with us at the beginning. Right after we tossed our last empty beer can, a State Trooper pulled up just a little too late to see that. We told him our story and he let us continue on. We got home after several partial way rides and some walking and eventually calling someone to come get us
We went back to the Speedway the next morning in one of my friends cars and my spare set of keys. We parked outside the speedway and walked up to the gate where the drivers and in field visitors bring their cars and RVs through. When we got there, the same attendant told us there was some kind of practicing going on with a bunch of Harley Davidson bikes on the track. He told us to not get our car on the track.
Well, that gave my friends the idea to take my bad arse Cutlass on the track. They talked me into doing that. I waited until the right moment, got my car on the track, passed a few motor cycles and was in the clear to drive around the track. I was going probably 100 mph through the tri oval turns 1 and 2 and speeding ahead to turn 3. Turn 3 and 4 at Talladega are very steep and looked like a steep wall coming at it at high speed. I chickened out and drove my car around the bottom flat part of those turns driving because I didn't know if my suspension could handle the curve. I stopped briefly and we crawled up the steep curve and then then jumped back in my car and took off to the gate to get out. The attendant tried to stop us but I just drove around him and we got away luckily without getting into any trouble.
This post was edited on 8/26/24 at 5:31 pm
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