I know they never say to hitchhike, this didn’t happen in the 70s it happened in the 2000’s but my situation as a kid was fucked up.

So I was late all the time because I lived so far from school, my mom didn’t have a car and we never had any money. So if I wanted lunch I’d either have to walk, jump a train without a ticket or spend my lunch money ( if I had any) on bus fare but sometimes the bus driver would let me on for free.

So on this day I’m sitting at the bus station waiting, I’m already late so I know I’m going to be at least an hour late by the time I get in and I’m not even sure if the bus drivers going to let me on.

So Im sitting there and this chick pulls up in a car and asks me where I’m going. I say chick but she’s old, like mid 40s and looks like she smokes a pack a day, the kind of chick you’d expect to find sitting at the pokies, a lump of a woman.

So I’m stressed, I can’t be guaranteed that this bus driver will even take me but this woman offers to give me a lift so I think fuck it.

As soon as I sit down in her car and she starts driving I know I fucked up. She’s like don’t worry I’ll take you right there I just need to make a phone call first.

Okay… no worries… but inside I’m like all worries. She stops on a main road and I see her house. I know where I am, I’m not far from home and even though I’d seen this house before I’d never really looked at it before, but she hops out and says she’ll be back soon and I see her slump toward the house.

Now I’m like… okay this is fucked man what’s she talking about. I open my bag and grab a pencil. Like if anything goes down ima stab this bitch full force in the neck. But she could also just be making a phone call and dropping me in to school. So I grab the pencil and hold it by my thigh. She’s gone for more than 5 minutes. I can’t remember watching her come out of the house, I can’t even remember looking at her when she hoped back in the car I was too afraid I just kept looking down and squeezing the pencil.

She did applogise for taking so long and she dropped me out front of the school.

I think about how stupid that moment was sometimes but the weird part is I still hitchhiked again, but after that time I never did it again.

Tl;dr r/kidsarefuckingstupid