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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:48 am
Yes Yes
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:49 am
no no
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:59 am
yes yes
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 9:26 am
No No
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 9:28 am
yes- twice, once to a young teenage boy and another to a 40ish woman who actually came up to my window at a stop light. no, but my van broke down in the country once and I turned the emergency lights on and started walking toward town. A lady and her son stopped and gave me a ride to town. Never had my thumb out.
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 9:42 am
1) Not a chance 2) Once when I was a teen...scared the heck out of me. (At the time I was with a friend that did it regularly). Never again!
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:02 am
1. No 2. No
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:04 am
1. No 2. No
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:26 am
nope nope
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 11:00 am
no no
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 11:05 am
1. No 2. Yes. I was about 19 and me and my younger sister (who was 11 at the time) went to see a movie at a new theater that opened in a town about 25 minutes north. We had to drive on the interstate to get there. We got there with no problems, but on the way home my car overheated and pretty much died on the side of the road. I was w/o a cell phone and had no clue what to do since this was my first bad car experience. I stayed amazingly calm and about 10 minutes later I saw a car pull off the highway and watched a lady get out and come running back to us. As she got closer and closer I thought to myself that I "knew" her. Turns out I did. She graduated from my high school about 3 years ahead of me (we never interacted in HS)! Luckily she recognized me too and offered us a ride home. Small world.
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 12:08 pm
1. Yes 2. Yes
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 12:16 pm
1. Yes 2. Yes
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 3:07 pm
1. No 2. No

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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 3:18 pm
1. yes - I've taken elderly ladies home when they've been stranded either on the road or at church. Never picked up anyone else. 2. yes - once. I was 24 but looked about 16 and my bus didn't come for work. A man I recognized (buy didn't know) offered me a ride and after some hesitation, I accepted. But he didn't take me to work. It was a horrendous experience and I learned that day that no one is safe even if it's someone I'd seen at work before.
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Clutterfree
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 3:23 pm
1. No 2. Yes, once, when I was with a male friend in Provincetown and was trying to get from the local airport into town. A man in the biggest motor home I have ever seen offered us a ride. He couldn't see out rear view mirrors so had a television camera in the back, which hooked up to a TV monitor on his dash! He was from Canada is only other thing I remember. Never thought about it as hitchhiking til after the fact. For some reason, I always feel safer in Provincetown than elsewhere, although don't know if it would still be true.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 3:49 pm
1. numerous times when i was young my dad would pick up homeless people, most of whom we knew by name 2. yes when i was 6, early in my 1st grade year i decided to walk the 2+ miles home since my dad was late picking me up and i had things to do along the way (and i will be the first to admit it was not a safe road to walk along with all the curves and speed demons) i got a ride with the local newspaper lady who knew me - hopped into her car stacked with newspapers though i tried to fight her about going back to the school versus dropping me at home since i was already a good 3/4th of a mile along the way and didnt want that travel to be for nothing (ok so she took me back to the school where my dad finally showed up)
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Abbynormal
Member
08-04-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 4:22 pm
1. Yes and his name was Bob. I had to take some papers to Atlanta and picked him up. It was a spur of the moment thing and he looked creepy as hell. He only needed to go to Anniston which is about 45 miles away but ended up riding to Atlanta with me. We had so much fun talking and laughing that he ended up riding all the way back with me and I dropped him off where I had picked him up. I think about him sometimes and how lucky and weird the whole thing was. 2. I hitched from Tenn. to Indiana when I was 19. I was left at a rest stop somewhere in the middle of the night by a trucker because I wouldn't have sex. I was so relieved! Took me 3 days but I finally got there. I flew back. 
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 4:25 pm
yes yes
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 5:18 pm
no no
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 5:41 pm
yes yes
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 7:48 pm
1) No. 2) Yes - during bus strikes when I was younger... doubt I would nowadays.
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:16 pm
No No This is how my mom and dad met. Dad was hitching, and mom and her friend picked him up. 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:38 pm
No, but my dad picked up a young sailor once and we took him to his aircraft carrier in San Diego and got a great tour of the carrier. No, but once when my mom's car broke down, overheated (I was driving, she wasn't there) I got a tow from a nice stranger , probably burnt out the brakes on mom's car making sure I didn't hit the guy's car.. and probably the answer for my "inside people" back in the day would be yes..
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 11:09 pm
no on picking up but yes on hitchhiking. friends and i hitchhiked to a creek to swim. this guy picked us up and we all decided to climb into his truckbed rather than any of us getting inside. when we got out, one girl told us she hadn't seen any door handle on the inside passenger door. a guy was arrested a few weeks later for rape and he had a truck with no inside handle on the passenger door. i don't know if it was him, but you would have thought i would have learned my lesson. nope, it took me two times... the second time, a girl and i were driving to redding. we were maybe 17 or 18. her car broke down on highway 5 and no highway patrol came along. a man and his young son stopped and asked if they could take us to a payphone to call for a tow truck. we got into the backseat of this car that had no back doors, just the long front doors. they had all kinds of fishing gear and spears and knives. my friend got a fishhook stuck in her buttocks and the father got all hot and bothered and told the young son, who was maybe 12, "you hooked one, kid. now what youse gonna do wif her?" we were sure we were going to be raped and murdered. last time i ever hitchhiked, i can tell you. oh, and a friend was almost raped by a picker-upper and she pretended to be 'feeble' so he would leave her off somewhere. she never hitchhiked again, either. way too scary, even back more than 30 years. not the same as the during the WW2 years when everyone's 'duty' was to pick up a man in uniform..
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