Big Muddy rancher said:
On a busy day we get 10-12 cars a day. Not much of a Bill board market in the Big Muddy. :wink:
"Bill" would be "bored" driving through our country, too. Once in a while I've gotten stuck or had a pickup not start. Even after you walk miles to a "main" road, you can wait quite awhile for someone to come along. Usually when they do, though, they are kind enough to stop.
I picked up a hitch-hiker in Cody yesterday, and gave him a ride to Merriman. He was clean shaven and nicely dressed in brand new Carhartt coveralls. He was also wearing new lined leather gloves. Early yesterday morning he had started out in North Platte. Just a ways out of town, a pickup had stopped to give him a ride. They hollered, "Just throw you bag in the back and you can ride up front with us." He threw his warbag, containing two pairs of jeans and two shirts, besides long underwear and his shaving kit, into the back of the pickup. As he walked to the door, the driver peeled out in the pickup, taking his bag and leaving him stranded with just the clothes on his back. He was a little upset to say the least. Fortunately a vehicle came along soon thereafter, and gave him a ride to Valentine. He seemed like a nice chap, and I gave him a little money to buy supper with. However, the more I think about all his brand new clothes and the "soft" handshake when we parted ways, it makes me wonder if he had just recently been released from a jail somewhere. Hope he finds work at the packing plant in Gordon, which was his ultimate destination.