Reply #25: no great distances [View All]

but from 14 to 18 (when I moved away) I would often hitch just as something to do, sometimes with one friend or another but just as often, alone. We'd get drunk or stoned or both and take off. We would go from one side of town to the other and then get another ride to somewhere else. We stopped for a while after I accidentally thumbed down a cop car and the friend I was with started mouthing off to him and almost got us locked up. But after a few months we were back at it. We were all constantly intoxicated and I had a bad habit of thumbing away without any word to anyone all of a sudden and out of the blue. My mother caught me at some point and I promised to stop. But kept a secret clause that I could still hitch motorcycles. Something about the wind. I wound up dating this one guy who picked me up on his bike for a while. I was back in my hometown visiting a few months ago and after a late night and even though I was at most a 15 min walk from where I was staying just couldn't restrain myself and thumbed one down. Never had any problems with a driver but figure I've pushed my luck.