[pct-l] Best sign for hitchhiking

[montypct]

>dual purpose. Market
> it as a water container too!


Genius!!!!
Hey switchback,  we've got a business partner for you here.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Whitmer" <heynicemarmot at gmail.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Best sign for hitchhiking


> No, you're marketing it wrong. True ultralight would be dual purpose. 
> Market
> it as a water container too!
>
> On 4/6/08, montypct <montypct at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One day near Warner Springs I picked up a hitckhiker carrying a small red
>> plastic gas can.  When I asked him where his car was he said, "I don't 
>> own
>> a
>> car.  I just carry the gas can 'cause it helps me get rides."
>>
>> True.  I picked him up expecting that I was doing some great deed that
>> maybe
>> someone like Mother Theresa or Ghandi would have done.  My heart sunk a
>> bit.
>> I was no longer Ghandi.
>>
>> Switchback, wherever you are.  Here's another business opportunity for
>> you.
>> Little inflatible, ultralight, red gas cans.
>> I can see it now.  Inflatible gas cans.  Printed on the side PCT Class of
>> 2008.
>>
>>
>>
>> Warner Springs Monty
>> Pacific Crest Trail 2650 Miles .....Again.....and Again
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Amanda L Silvestri" <aslive at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:23 PM
>> Subject: [pct-l] Signs for hitchhiking
>>
>>
>> >I used to make up signs saying what HWY or cross road I was going
>> to.  What
>> >I found was that many people see hichikers as "bumbs" I got around this
>> >misconception by printing
>> >  "To My Car" on my sign.  You can always say that your car is in town.
>> >
>> >  Amanda
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