Week 1 addendum (things I forgot to mention)
- I was very surprised not to be bothered by a single police officer. I made sure I wasn’t actually in any roadways, which seems to be the main thing that’ll get you in trouble, but I’ve been bothered so many other times for doing legal things that I thought for sure it would happen when I did something kind of dangerous that most people think is illegal.
- I got tired really fast. My right arm and hand mostly, but also my feet/legs.
- Starting on Thursday, I noticed that after staring at oncoming traffic for a while and then looking elsewhere, there was a weird optical effect where everything looked like it was slowly melting to the left.
- I’d read that it was important to have a good sign, so I used stencils to get mine as neat-looking as possible, but I felt weird about having a totally perfect hitchhiking sign, because it seemed bogus. The whole process felt bogus, but something about my sign being made of poster board that I’d purchased at Blick instead of cardboard that I’d scavenged made it feel extra bogus.
- I bought a pocket knife to take with me after people kept making comments about how dangerous hitchhiking was and how I should take protection. I really like the knife but feel silly about purchasing things I didn’t get to use in any sense.
- People (friends) had a hard time understanding why I was doing what I was doing. I had to keep saying things like, “That’s the point!” That’s not their fault, it just means my website doesn’t communicate my deal clearly enough. I’ll work on it.
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