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# '''Overestimating your skills'''<br />This is a quite nice one for experienced hitchhikers. Starting late in the evening or planning too long distances.<br /><br />
# '''Listening to the driver's suggestions'''<br />Everybody does it in the beginning of their career. You are not quite sure about the place you want to be dropped and you listen to the suggestions of your driver (who often hitchhiked himself in the seventies). Never do, you are the hitchhiking expert and you know [[where to hitchhike]]. In 9 of the 10 cases you will have a couple of hours waiting time to regret the decision. ;-)<br /><br />
# '''Not getting out in time''' <br />Applies only to highway hitchhiking. If your ride is only passing your destination and it's too far from the highway, make sure to get out 100-150 km before to catch a new ride into town.<br /><br />
# '''Losing items on route'''<br />Hitchhiking requires going into and leaving vehicles, sometimes very quickly depending on the situation. It happens easily that you forget an object, for example the map that you use to study the best place to change cars, or to know where about you actually are. Don't unpack anything, and keep your stuff in your pockets & bags.<br /><br />
# '''Discussing controversial matters with drivers; losing control over conversation''' (e.g. Religion, Politics or Sex)<br />Some drivers need to bring over extreme political opinions. This is not food for debate, you only need to hear it because for one you were to accept the ride from a stranger. Discussing those matters too fiercely has a negative impact of the joy of the conversation and the pleasure experienced during and after the ride. As ridiculous or extreme as his points of view may be, agree with the driver, and take it an exercise in diplomacy: laugh it off afterwards!<br /><br />
