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[[Image:Sheffieldbedroomwall.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[User:Tmoon|Tmoon]]'s collection of [[signs]]]]
[[Hitchhikers]] often debate about whether to use a '''sign'''. If you decide to use one there are several important things:
Others always have a sign. To show it to people while their still in the car and then ask them when they pass by to pay for their gas. If they don't understand what's written on it they also ask. And I already have it with me when getting out of a car, so people sometimes ask me right away if they can take me... So it's definitely good to have it. It doesn't have any negative effects so why not use it?
In conflict with the above, a sign only makes sense when you stand next to the road. At the petrol station you could better show the driver on a map where you want to go and so he can show you where he can take you. You even donât don’t need to speak his language for that. The big problem with signs is that the driver must read it, then he must wonder if goes the same direction, than he wants to know if he likes your face and if he can stop somewhere...but than he realises that he passed you, he is now 500m away from you ...so he will decide to drive on!
[[Image:Guaka my bithday2.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Sometimes you can use special signs]]
If you just use your thumb the driver only has to decide if he likes you and if he can stop his car in this place.
Another bad idea is the use of shortcuts, because only locals know them (like HH for Hamburg).
Also, the driver can see your faraway destination city and although he doesn't want to go there, he could take you for the next 200km. Most drivers don't realise how helpful they could be with these 200km, so they drive on.
I always have enough baggage with me. So I really donât don’t need another square meter of waterproofed cardboard in my backpack.
Use what you find and what you can put in the next garbage can!
I only use sometimes funny signs or at some crossroads they could be helpful and when I am not the only hitchhiker who is standing next to the motorway.
