El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Years ago as a student I used to hitchike a fair > bit. > > I remember getting into a car at the gloucester > roundabout on the M5 and the inside was decorated > with gay porn. > I politely asked him to pull up and let me out, > which he begrudgingly did, but it was a real > ascending screechy violins moment. > > Funnily enough on recounting the tale back up at > university I met two others who'd had the same > experience in the same gold audi on that route. > > None of it stopped me hitchiking, but it makes you > think that you are ceding control to someone who > might have more nefarious intentions rather than > chancing his arm that that'll be your thing. > > Obviously this is something of an aside, I'm with > Jeremy that a blanket ban for kids is the only > sensible option, and I'm someone who normally > complains about the pitchfork mentality on here > over 'suspicious men'. An unrelated post about your discomfort about a gay man isn't helpful in the context of this thread, or in any context for that matter.