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Originally Posted by fleury
...you must pack a large set of gonads my friend  . Too risky for me. |
Well....my wife says the same thing....she will never let me pick up a hitch hiker if shw is with me. I have never felt threatened yet when picking someone up....maybe that is because I am use to dealing with strange people and being in high stress situations....so maybe that is why.
Just a few hitch hiker stories.
One time I was driving home from work in Southern Alberta and I see these two hitch hikers ("HH"). I pull over and next thing I know they run into the ditch and bring back two large garbage bags. I ask what is inside and they say "we need to go to the bottle depot". Ok...I take them to Lethrbidge and drop them off at the closest bus stop.
Another time same area I pull over for this women HH. She jumps in and says she really needs to get to Lethbridge to find her husband because he hasn't been home for over a week and she has been in her home with no food. (She lives in the country). She says her husband was suppose to go to Lethbridge and get groceries but he has not been back for a week. I asked her where he might be and he she tells me he is probably at the bar in Lethbridge....I start driving and she begins to cry....really hard. I ask what is wrong and she says that her house is haunted and she was all alone in her house with a ghost. Well....she cried all the way to Lethbridge (45 mins away). I dropped her off downtown Lethbridge and wished her good luck.
As for people asking for money....I usually never give money out. I will ask what they need the money for and most of the time they say it is for food. If there is a fast food spot near by I will usually offer to go buy them something. Sometimes they do sometimes they don't. What I have found quite a few times over the last 6 months....people coming up to me in the parking lot of a mall and explain to me that they have just arrived in Calgary from down east....have been looking for a place to stay and work but have ran out of money. I always offer to take them somewhere to buy them some food....everytime except this one guy they refuse. This one guys did take me up on the offer and I took him to A&W. I said order what ever you want. He did and he seemed sooo happy.