Inspired by Tobin, MFM is gonna hit the road again... though he's never had too much luck with that.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[pintobean]

1. A real nowhere man

Knows not where he's going to

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Isn't he a pintobean like thee? n/t

[bluedigger]

2. Like I'm going to pick up a bare foot hitchhiker.

:eyes:

[Tobin S.]

4. I have picked up a hitch-hiker or two in my time

That's a no-go now days. I stopped even considering the idea after I heard about a trucker who got killed by a couple of escaped inmates when he stopped to pick them up. I guess they were kinda like that fella in your OP. If I remember right that happened in Arizona. Say, you are joking aren't you? :P

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. I think the last time I hitchhiked was in 1972 to a music festival in Goose Creek, Michigan.

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60 miles from where I was living. I left at midnight (KNEW I would not
wake up the next morning and feel motivated to go).
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It took me 30 minutes to go the first 30 miles and 6 hours to go the
next 30 (but I got picked up by a carful of hippies who bought me
some breakfast and gave me the $2.00 I was short for my ticket).
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I was, BTW... a hippie, too.
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Hitchhiked home around 10 or 11 PM (after it was over) and it took me
JUST over an hour for the 60 miles -- guy dropped me off at my front
door.
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Yes... they WERE the good ol' days.
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