There's still the ones who carry registration plates
What is that? In Wiltshire last Monday bloke doing that and walking in wrong direction for potential lift. Yours puzzled.
Saw some people earlier doing a sponsored hitch hike. Can remember seeing them loads in the 80’s and the car salesman with their trade plates trying to hitch hike. Just never see them anymore.
Not wishing to sound pedantic but those people with reg plates where not salesmen but usually delivery drivers returing to their base after dripping off a car I must say I havent seen one in ages. but then I rarely use the motorways where they stand at a junction.
Yes, I remember, in both the UK on on mainland Europe, that planning the place to hitch was very important - you had to give the drivers enough room to safely stop. Also, you had to be at a decent junction if heading long-distance - getting a lift a few miles was rarely worth it if you were going to end up in somewhere with much less traffic.Maybe its a combination of the road rage culture and increased traffic congestion that has made it harder to suddenly pull over to pick up a hitch hiker that its no longer so easy to do so, either for practical purposes or if you do you risk the wrath of the drivers behind you. Also its illegal to walk along many of the major roads nowadays, whereas in the 80s and before you could just stroll along the major routes with your thumb out. Another factor is a greater percentage of the population now own cars. I used to hitchhike a lot in the 80s and have hitched all the way to Berlin and Spain amongst other places and rarely had to wait too long for lifts. It wasn't just lifts you were offered. Sometimes the person who'd picked you up would treat you to a meal and I even got beds for the night on a number of occasions. I always thought I'd return the favour when I became a driver but by then the decline had already set in and I've never picked up a hitchhiker because of their scarcity and on the few occasions I have seen them it just wasn't conducive to pull over.
I got picked up in Germany - in Nuremberg - during a rainstorm by a van full of young German women. Sounds like a wonderful start of a porn movie, but it wasn't quite like that.Unfortunately the hitch hiking, braless bit of crumpet in a cardigan with all the buttons undone and bending over in a very short skirt showing her knickers,often to be seen in 70's sketch shows never existed in real life.
Unless you know better.
Yes, I remember, in both the UK on on mainland Europe, that planning the place to hitch was very important - you had to give the drivers enough room to safely stop. Also, you had to be at a decent junction if heading long-distance - getting a lift a few miles was rarely worth it if you were going to end up in somewhere with much less traffic.
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I got picked up in Germany - in Nuremberg - during a rainstorm by a van full of young German women. Sounds like a wonderful start of a porn movie, but it wasn't quite like that.