I have hitch hiked a couple of times.  Have you ever been hitchhiking?
Hitchhiking
Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other vehicle. A ride is usually, but not always, free.
Itinerants have also used hitchhiking as a primary mode of travel for the better part of the last century, and continue to do so today.
Signaling methods.
- Signals used by hitchhikers
Hitchhikers use a variety of signals to indicate they need a ride. Indicators
the point of standing in the same position. Dorothy Mitchell stated “I have seen him before doing the same thing (hitch-hiking) at that spot”. Motorist Jeremy Sleeman whom had given Tutill a lift home the day before he was murdered stated "I learned later that this was his usual routine".
Unlike other School boys who also hitch-hiked in the area, but did so in pairs or a group, Tutill hitch-hiked alone.
Tutill's home village of Brockham was marked by