When I was doing my year abroad in Munich, Germany, my friend Andrea and I went to visit an acquaintance of my mother’s who lived near the Swiss-German border. We tried hitch-hiking there and had decent luck getting close to her house, but we decided to go back by train or bus since we wanted to be back in time for classes. My mother’s friend convinced us we should hitchhike back. We were picked up by a normal-looking man in a suit who started making suggestive comments and acting a little strange. I’m not sure how it came about, but he dropped us off in the middle of a field with no town or houses in sight. We walked around for an hour and did not see a single vehicle or person. We eventually started walking and came to a small village where we were able to get a bus a few hours later. (NB)