Certain types of people will pick up hitchers, and others won't. The vast majority of folk that will give you a lift are friendly, sound and social. But how can you tell if they'll stop before you know this ?

Peeps that are more likely to pick up a tall, white, single male hitcher in his twenties :

• young blokes (often herb smokers)
  
• women in their thirties
  
• couples
  
• anyone English

Peeps that will invariably not pick up said hitcher :

• women driving new 4x4s (too middle-class)
  
• women over fifty
  
• people driving new hired camper vans (spirit of adventure my ass)
  
• fucking Mondeo drivers