First time hitchhiking
If you've never hitchhiked before, you have to get over your first time hitchhiking fear. Every hitchhiker went through this. The first time, standing on the side of the road, heart pounding.
To get over this, just do it!
This is of course easy to say, but before standing along the street and watching cars passing by, you can prepare yourself good:
Buy a map, check out the Top Tips, other pages on this wiki, other hitchhiking websites. Make sure you know what a good spot means, and that you know some good spots on the trip you're making. Also have a look at your appearance to make sure you look like a hitchhiker.
First time hitchhiking doesn't necessarily mean a short trip -- but starting with a short trip might help you get used to the motions and what to expect. Take a day trip to the next town! This said, don't prepare too much. Decide where you're going, the best road to get there, walk a distance, and at a good spot face the traffic and stick up your thumb. You'll feel like the center of attention at first, but after a while you'll get used to it, and will become more concerned with trying to win a ride than your worries about what you're doing.
Sometimes it happens that you can wait for quite a long time. This can have different reasons: Is it a bad spot? Can cars stop easily there without blocking the traffic? Is it a holiday and all cars are filled up with families? The list of possible reasons is long, but to calm you down there's one universal rule for every hitchhiker out there:
Somewhere out there there is someone who will picks you up. Always! The only question is when this is going to happen, but as Einstein once said: Time is relative.
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