Most Random Rides!!!!

[Ivy League]

I have actually had one of the most random rides ever and it was fucking incredible! So myself and my two guy friends who I took along with me for safety reasons, being a female and all, were in the middle of fuckin' nowhere trying to get to SF, and so we were walking and this SUV pulls over and this guy sticks his head out the window, "you got any weed?" and we said no, they said get in the car before they changed their mind, so we did and there were two guys in the front, one girl in the back and they went by mafia movie names. It was really odd, but then the whole time the two guys kept asking if we had anything to sell like weed butter, or shrooms and every time we said no, they always went off with "you all lyin'" which was pretty funny in itself. the passenger seat guy flashed a really bright light at us, which fucking hurt and I saw spots for like 5 minutes and they laughed and said, "that's like a cop light or some shit, you seein' spots? We see spots too from that shit, ahahahaha" and then they told us how the car was stolen and that i gave them a backpack and my class ring that they would give us the car. I said no, but when they finally dropped us off into an actual town the driver got out and gave me $12 bucks and gave me the most concerned face and said "be really careful out there, okay?" and they left. Funny, painful, random, awesome.

 

[L.C.]

hitching the 40 in nc me and a friend got stopped by cops. they said we could walk,but couldn't hitch. a few seconds after they left aguy high up in homeland security picked us up,and said the only reason he did it was so the cops wouldn't bother us.
in new york 2 dealers picked us up and got us bent the whole day. they came back to the park we camped at every day to party untill we left.

 

[Beegod Santana]

One time snipe junkie and I got pulled off a bnsf train in kansas only to have the bull give us a ride to the liquor store with a short stop at the atm to get a $20 bill for us. Definitly didn't see that one coming.

Another time in oregon I got picked by a yuppie soccer mom in a mini-van who was driving her 16 yr old son to basketball practice. She gave me a ride about two miles down the five, told me a good truck stop to go spange, and then kicked me down some xanax (sp?), all while her son was laughing his ass off. Then from the same off ramp she dropped me at I got another ride from a drunk guy who drove his shit can down all these crazy ass logging roads saying he was headed south, only to accidently back track me north 15 miles. Fucking oregon.

 

[db3kfan]

got picked up in a limo. got to chill in the back and drink a beer that the driver gave us. my buddy smoked the joint the driver rolled.

got picked up by a 23 yr old mormon in az by the grand canyon. she was driving home from a wedding with her newborn son and toddler. i was in the front and my dirty ass buddy was in the back watching madagascar and sipping an apple juice box between two kids in car seats. pretty neat image.

 

[wokofshame]

damn i meant to tell this story at the gathering (which rocked by the way fuck you any naysayers) but forgot,
so i hopped off this train at a siding in sabbona IL last summer, had enough of trains and especially that one for a while after 2 1/2 days on that bitch, so i went and got some hot water formy tea from a gas sta by the head end, some pizza off the bacteria wheel, walked up to the engineer and offered him a slice, he offered me a unit ride but i just wanted to hitch the rest of the way down to TrailDays, so I stick my thumb out and these two kids from Iowa, attractive girl and kind o overweight guy both my age stop, girl is driving, she's like a young bunny lebowski sort, immediatley asks me "can you give him your underwear?"
choke. mmmm... say again? what the fuck's going on

they have never picked up a hitcher before and have this TV image of us that we are all pervs of murderers or sumthing, explain that he has wanted to start a dirty underwear collection and now is the time
"that'll be 20$"
eventually we bargain the price out to a 10 and all the change in the front console, by the end of the 6-miole ride to i-69 i sold my dirty undies! ha

 

[Ivy League]

got picked up in a limo. got to chill in the back and drink a beer that the driver gave us. my buddy smoked the joint the driver rolled.

got picked up by a 23 yr old mormon in az by the grand canyon. she was driving home from a wedding with her newborn son and toddler. i was in the front and my dirty ass buddy was in the back watching madagascar and sipping an apple juice box between two kids in car seats. pretty neat image.

That image is what I would call one of two things: 1-a movie moment (comedy of course)
or 2-a real-life sitcom, gotta love real life entertainment

 

[Ivy League]

I actually just remembered this one truck driver that picked myself and my two friends up on the same trip. He was telling how he made this same trip every day all week except saturday night so he got all of sunday off, and he was talking about his son and his divorce and everything else and said how he was keeping a good outlook on it, but I didn't notice until my friend said something later, but the guy was driving one handed and the hand he was driving with was half gone. Like it was just his pointer finger and his thumb. So he sorta had a claw going on, but it looked more like his hand had been cut off down to the wrist a little ways. I don't know what happened, not sure I wanna know, but just glad that with the crazy way he was driving, we made it into the next town alright. Really odd.

 

[JoeGerminate]

I got off my train in Bakersfield, I took me 13 hours to get to Bakersfield from San Bernardino, so I was over riding the trains for that trip (I had a bit of a time table to keep). so I hit up some locals for directions on getting to the 5 fwy. Three people gave me three different answers so I just stuck up my thumb and hoped that whoever picked me up knew where they were going. I ended up getting picked up by a really nice guy who drove me out to the 5, which was like 20 miles past where he was going (but he didn't tell me that until he was dropping me off, otherwise I wouldn't have let him go so far out of the way). On the way we passed the Frito Lay factory and tried to dumpster it, but to no avail.

So he leaves me in the town of buttonwillow at the TA travel center. It was late by that time so I decided I was going to sleep there the night and hitch out in the morning, rather than risk falling asleep in some random persons car. So I bury my face in my book, not quite ready to fall asleep, when some tweeker looking kids walk up and start spanging for gas money. They were nice enough, we shared some stories, then I asked if any of then was 21 and could buy me some beer. One said yeah my friend is 21 and walked back to the car (there were a few more in the car). Suddenly they all started arguing with each other and after a few minutes decided they didn't want to buy me beer. Then they come over to me and start yelling their arguments at me. So I started to walk away, and they all got super friendly and told me not to leave. But I was over it and went and slept behind the starbucks across the street. Woke up next to a drug deal going down.

 

[hobotrucker]

I was just outside of Nashville headed west on I-40 thinking about getting to Reno to see a childhood friend that relocated years before. Had talked to him on the phone and told him that I may hitch out his way to visit a day or three but it could take awhile seeing as I was thumbing with a dog. He told me the quicker I get out there, I could help him with a job that would pay me well over the weekend. It all sounded good but I never imagined I would make the time as I was on foot. And then, as I had stood for hours on the on ramp, I got a little ancy and decided to walk to the next exit. Within 10 minutes of walking, an older gent in a pickup pulls over and asks where I was headed. I replied, "well trying to get to Reno to see an old friend but it's not looking to good today." He then said, " Well today is your lucky day. I'm headed to Vegas. Can you help me drive?" I was glad to lend him a hand .... and a foot to say the least. Turned out, he had just left his wife and was packed to the limit in the truck moving out to Vegas to do what he said he did best. Gamble. He only done the sports betting and assured me that he done it well. He took me to my first casino once in Vegas, paid for my room at a cheap motel (like 20 bucks, lol) and gave me a hundred dollar bill. Next day, he drove me over to the Flying J where I later caught that ride to Reno.

 

[spectacular]

guy in a small buggy with a large peace sign in the back window took me from the middle to the edge of town in pueblo, CO. on the way there he took $5 out of his pocket and practically threw it at me and then tried to grab my boobs.

 

[spectacular]

best ride ever: free from abq to los angeles with this navajo guy who worked for the government. also got a ride where the guy took me from raton to santa fe in NM and then gave me $20

 

[Skit]

I got picked up by a guy who barely spoken any English. We managed to communicate which highway I was going to by drawing on the dashboard dust and shared a laugh when he said the only phrase we both knew, "Policia no bueno".
I know my folks have given rides to "kids" in their short bus.

 

[ChrisHitTheRoad]

In Belgium I once got picked up by Belgium drug runners who drive between the Netherlands and Belgium. Pretty weird experience.

 

[Krickey]

Hitching on the Oregon coast. Me and road dog spent the night next to an on ramp in the middle of nowhere. In the morning when we started hitching this camper went by us, got on the highway then stopped a half mile onto the highway. They then proceed to back down the highway and pick us up. They were two Canadian homosexual nudists going down the coast for a funeral and they dropped us right where we needed to be. They even managed to keep their clothes on for half the ride.