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Epic tales of the thumb, the open road and getting robbed by hairy-arsed truck drivers. Alternatively, travelling for free like a dreadful fare-jumping cheat. Confess.

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(, Thu 21 Aug 2014, 13:34)
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Saw a couple on the way to Sonisphere this year.
Shuttle bus driver wouldn't stop for them though.

Saw and picked up 3 going to Bloodstock (This was in a taxi because there was no shuttle bus after the Friday)
3 obvious metalheads at the side of the road with bergens loaded with tents and booze and their thumbs out. Me in the back of a black cab.
Me: Oi, mate, pull over here and let these guys in please.
Taxi Driver: What? Why?
Me: 'Cos they're obviously going to the site, we're going there anyway, I've already travelled with you before, so you know you're getting a tip from me, and I'll make sure they chip in to tip you too.
Taxi Driver: I can't stop here. Look, there's a layby half a mile on, I'm happy to pull in there and wait a bit for them, but not too long.
So, as he gets to them he slows right down and yells "OI! YOU CUNTS! GET TO THE LAYBY DOWN THERE!" They just stand there looking stupefied.
Taxi Driver: "I CAN'T FUCKING STOP HERE! GET TO THE FRIGGING LAYBY! THIS FUCKER (points at me) WANTS ME TO PICK YOU UP! SO FUCKING MOVE YOUR ARSES!"
We get to the layby, wait, wait some more, and eventually they turn up and pile in, we continue on our merry way.
The taxi fare from my hotel to the site was £18.50. I gave £20 (the previous day I'd only gone from the hotel to the train station and given him £10 for a £6 journey)and the three mousketeers gave a fiver each.
The next morning when I rang the driver to take me in to the site he said "Boss, I can pick up as many hitchers as you want. Want me to bring a minibus for you?"
(, Fri 22 Aug 2014, 0:58, 2 replies)
I read all the way to the end of that waiting for the heavy metal orgy.
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(, Fri 22 Aug 2014, 7:57, closed)
LOL - we all know that Heavy Metal followers don't have sex. Good one.

(, Fri 22 Aug 2014, 8:59, closed)
"The gift of death metal does not smile on the good looking".

(, Fri 22 Aug 2014, 18:36, closed)
I'm saving that as next week's story.

(, Fri 22 Aug 2014, 16:32, closed)
To be fair to the shuttle bus driver, I wouldn't stop for anyone in Stevenage either.
And I fucking work there.

I got a taxi to Sonisphere like a sensible person.
(, Fri 22 Aug 2014, 9:03, closed)

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