21 Wild Hitchhiking Stories That Will Have You Running for the Hills

Sometimes the driver, not the hitchhiker, is the weirdo. Case in point: The guy who picked up a college student who looked to be his cousin. After chiding him with “Does your mom know you’re doing this?” and letting the kid in the car, the driver came to the realization that this guy was not, in fact, his cousin. But he continued driving him to his destination anyway, forgetting to turn off the Baby Einstein CD that was blasting through the speakers. At the end of the ride, still forgetting that this dude wasn’t his cousin, he yelled “Love you!” as the guy got out of the car. That’s a memory neither of them will forget, and now it’s immortalized online for all of us to have a chuckle about. 

Redditors have swerved into the slow lane and told stories about the wildest times they’ve let someone hitch a ride, and it’s a miracle people still consider this a viable mode of transportation.