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Mid-80's, me and a few of my friends got over 600 miles of rides mostly in the back of pickups after working a summer in AK. We'd split into pairs and meet up at a designated town. No cell phones back then, just look or wait for the other pair to show up on the side of the road. We were just 19-20 at the time, so not very scary looking. After that summer, I wound up giving rides to hitchhikers who may not have looked upstanding, but appreciated the lift.

I guess I could've made this an AskPoal question instead: Can you trust strangers not to murder you?

Mid-80's, me and a few of my friends got over 600 miles of rides mostly in the back of pickups after working a summer in AK. We'd split into pairs and meet up at a designated town. No cell phones back then, just look or wait for the other pair to show up on the side of the road. We were just 19-20 at the time, so not very scary looking. After that summer, I wound up giving rides to hitchhikers who may not have looked upstanding, but appreciated the lift. I guess I could've made this an AskPoal question instead: Can you trust strangers not to murder you?

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7 years ago I hitchiked 30 miles daily to and from work. Never had trouble getting a ride. Usually hitchhiking short distanves takes me about twice as long as driving myself the same distance.

In 2007 my then girlfriend (now wife and mother of 7 children) and I hitched from Dallas to San Francisco, then down to San Diego. From Texas to the California border every ride was truckers. If I remember it was only three rides but the last guy wouldn't take us across the California border.

San Fransicko was disgusting and full of degenerates even then.