I wish I had noticed this one earlier, it's funny!
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I came home for lunch today. As I went to make a left, an older woman frantically tried to flag me down. [DELETED] I can't think of anything I'd be up for less than a stranger riding behind me on a motorcycle.
Yeah, but would you have been this reticent if she was young and cute?
AArdvark wrote:Gas, grass or gas, lady. Nobody rides for free.
'Vark, it's "Gas, grass, or ass." Back in the mid 60s, '70s and early '80s, before they had incurable and then fatal venereal diseases, one night stands and "zipless fuck"s were supposedly very common. (Today they call it "hooking up.") Sometimes people met, they clicked, and had sex the same day. Some TV shows that offered people a chance to meet and go on a date reported that as many as 25% of the couples had sex on the first date.
Here is something to think about. In Virginia along the I-95 corridor from Dumfries, about 30 miles to Washington, DC, is a separate High Occupancy Vehicle Lane (HOV), which runs northbound in the morning and southbound in the afternoon. It's HOV-3, meaning you must have 3 or more passengers in the car. So people driving into work will stop at the park-and-ride lot in Stafford or near Potomac Mills and pick up two hitchhikers who are going the same place they are, whether it's somewhere in Fairfax county, Alexandria, Arlington or DC. No money exchanges hands; the two extra people get to ride for free in exchange for the driver being able to use the HOV lanes and get there 20 minutes faster. The extra passengers are referred to as "slugs" and the places where they wait and where drivers look for them are called "slug lines."
Going back home the driver in Downtown DC or well-known locations in the Virginia areas will look for people going back where he or she is for the same reason, to return using the HOV lanes.
This all sprouted up ad-hoc, nobody organized it, and it's been happening 5 days a week for more than twenty-five years, and in this whole time there's been no report of any attacks or assaults between drivers and slugs.
Jizaboz wrote:All she'd have to do is lean the wrong way into a turn to cause you a wreck, and then you'll be paying doctor and lawyer bills.
This is why motorcycle operators are required to carry insurance same as automobile operators. And motorcycle insurance is fairly cheap; Geico even advertises it "as low as $100 a year." I'd have to pay more than that to get wheelchair collision insurance.
Flack wrote:Yeah, this is an old trick. They ask you for a ride somewhere and then when you get there you realize they've stolen your kidney.
That happens so often with these rogue surgeons who are so skilled they can operate on a moving vehicle.
RealNC wrote:She was probably a rapist.
Yeah, those women can be brutal.
On a serious note, I was shocked to discover that potentially a whopping 30% of all rapes can be woman on man, or woman on woman. Young men or boys who are raped by a woman are often afraid to say anything because it sounds ridiculous or it makes him look weak.