[pct-l] Best sign for hitchhiking

[Tortoise]

Monty,

you did do a good deed; maybe not the good deed you anticipated, but a good 
deed anyway.


Tortoise

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>


montypct wrote:
> One day near Warner Springs I picked up a hitckhiker carrying a small red 
> plastic gas can.  When I asked him where his car was he said, "I don't own a 
> car.  I just carry the gas can 'cause it helps me get rides."
> 
> True.  I picked him up expecting that I was doing some great deed that maybe 
> someone like Mother Theresa or Ghandi would have done.  My heart sunk a bit. 
> I was no longer Ghandi.
> 
> Switchback, wherever you are.  Here's another business opportunity for you. 
> Little inflatible, ultralight, red gas cans.
> I can see it now.  Inflatible gas cans.  Printed on the side PCT Class of 
> 2008.
> 
> 
> 
> Warner Springs Monty
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Amanda L Silvestri" <aslive at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:23 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] Signs for hitchhiking
> 
> 
>> I used to make up signs saying what HWY or cross road I was going to.  What 
>> I found was that many people see hichikers as "bumbs" I got around this 
>> misconception by printing
>>  "To My Car" on my sign.  You can always say that your car is in town.
>>
>>  Amanda
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