"I was picked up by a truck driver delivering potatoes to every pub along the way to Bendigo, then a priest with his collar on. The priest dropped me off at a big intersection in Adelaide, which he said was a good spot to get a ride. But not long after he left me it started to pour with rain and I'm not sure any of the passing drivers could so much as see me standing there."
"We drove about 10 minutes before arriving at a big public housing estate. We went inside a spartan home and into the man's small bedroom, where there were two single beds. In one, the man's brother was sleeping. He woke his brother up, told him to move over, and announced they were going to be sleeping top to tail then offered me his bed, all to myself."
A 17-year-old hitchhiker traveled from Melbourne to Kalgoorlie in 1970 with only ten dollars borrowed from his brother. He obtained rides from several people, including a truck driver and a priest, and was left standing in heavy rain at an Adelaide intersection. A motorist invited him home, provided a bed by moving his brother, and cooked him bacon and eggs before returning him to the highway. The hitchhiker later secured work in Kalgoorlie and retained a lasting memory of the man’s kindness into his seventies. The act of giving had disproportionate meaning because it involved personal sacrifice.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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