Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)

The Hitch-Hiker (1980)

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  Roald Dahl : All my life, I have made it an absolute rule never to pass a hitchhiker at any time of day or night without giving him or her a lift. Then, on a pouring wet evening in September, just outside Oxford, I picked up two unhappy looking young men who were soaked to the skin. Both had hair down to their shoulders and bushy beards. One of them said, as they climbed into the back, "What a relief! Thank you so much." Suddenly, I felt the point of a knife pressing into my neck. "Hey," I said, "steady on." "Get out," the knife man said, "and hurry." I got out. They drove off and left me standing in the rain. Since then I have never given a lift to any man with long hair or with a bushy beard. The hitchhiker in this story has neither.