Mar 19, 2010

If you ever hitch hiked explain.

I hitch hiked one time in my life to date. It was on a very cold day in January in 1972. Lynn, Leesa and I were returning to Snow College after the Christmas break. We were in the old blue Chevy truck and had gone from Duchesne across Indian Canyon to Soldier Summit. The traffic was backed up for miles which we learned after crossing over from the Emma Park road intersection to Colton. There is an ara just after Colton near the turn to Schofield where you can see for several miles and it was nothing but taillights all the way. We slowly crept along until we had crossed Soldier Summit and headed toward the Tucker Rest Stop. But prior to getting to the rest stop the truck died and we couldn’t get it started again. I finally got out and hitched a ride to the café around the corner from the rest stop. I called our Bishop in Ephraim and he drove up from Ephraim to help us. He drove right past me as I stood in that outside phone booth waiting for him. There were three inches of very cold water standing on the floor of the phone booth as I stood there for about two hours waiting for him. He finally arrived with Lynn and Leesa as they drove the truck up to the booth. He apparently didn’t realize I was waiting in the phone booth and had driven past me until he found them. Now for the final kicker, I was wearing my very old worn out pair of tennis shoes and my feet were very cold.