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I only picked up hitchhikers a couple of times-- when I was much younger (and naive).

When I was driving through a mountain pass, in Oregon once, I spotted what appeared to be an old woman, in distress, standing beside a broken down car. It really seemed like the the middle of nowhere. Since my college bf (big, strong, lumberjack..he was) was with me, I thought it might be safe enough. So, without even asking him (my bf), I immediately pulled over to the shoulder of the highway and asked her if she needed a ride. As the old woman came up to the driver's side window, closer to me, I could tell she appeared to be homeless. She asked, "How far are you going...I'm going to Oakland?" She was very weathered, hadn't taken a bath in quite awhile, and her lower lip was cracked and bleeding. I told her to get in and I'd take her as far as I could. As she went around to the back door of the car, my bf sarcastically whispered to me, "Nice going, Sharon." She introduced herself as "Lil." I remember thinking, right away, that something didn't seem right about Lil. As we headed down I-5, "Lil" sort of crept up between my bf and myself, between the two front seats, and started asking questions. She asked me what my college major was. When I told her Anthropology, she replied in what seemed like the most bizarre voice I've ever heard, "Oh...bones...I *like* bones!" That was it. I pulled over, immediately, at a McDonald's and told her we'd buy her lunch, but that's as far as we were going! That was the last hitchhiker I ever picked up!

Have any hitchhiker stories?