On Jan 11, 12:28*am, "Farm1" > wrote:

> I retired from a very high paying job and then sought out what most people
> would term 'menial jobs'. *I really wanted to try my hand at being a bar
> maid in *a pub but there were no vacancies for that so I did other things.


I do not dispute your claim. I believe you. However, because you
had a well paying job and possibly some cash left over from that, your
experiences with menial jobs cannot possibly carry the same weight as
those who have had nothing but menial jobs all their lives and have
never been able to save enough to get out. Believe me, those people
are not happy. Same with hitch-hiking. Some guy quits his Wall
Street life and decides to spend a year hitch-hiking, it's not going
to be the same as someone without a dime shivering in the rain about
to lose his mind that no one in the whole wide world will stop and
pick him up. And then someone does and his faith in humanity is
momentarily been restored. I've been there. I'm glad I was there. I
have many entertaining and interesting stories based on some hitch-
hiking experiences that surely were not fun when they happened.

TJ