Psychohistory of hitching, was Re: Astrophysics of hitchhiking

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 11:59:44 MDT

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    On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:05:16 +1000, Damien Broderick
    <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

    > That's not really hard to do in Denver.
    ...
    > Surely people in Denver don't think that way.
    >
    > Damien Broderick

    Yep. Somebody wasn't reading with brain engaged.

    Long ago my friends reported a marked hitching difference between even
    Boulder, CO and Denver, CO. Boulder they found to be easy, Denver hard. I
    don't know how they or their pickers-uppers were dressed.

    I think hitch-hiking in the US is largely out of fashion these days--
    there's a bourgeois sentiment that only crazy people hitch or pick people
    up (and there has been for decades). If jitneys (ad hoc ride
    sharing/loosely licensed taxis) were legal, there might be some social
    pressure in the other direction.

    I wonder if Amara would have had more luck carrying a "strandedness token"
    such as a gasoline can. 

    -- 
I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. 
Sometimes I forget.

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