Now you’re a fool for helping. “I don’t want to get ” seems to have become a national mott

Now you’re a fool for helping. “I don’t want to get      ” seems to have bee a national motto. One summer I was driving from my hometown of Tahoe City, California to New Orleans, Louisiana. In the middle of the desert, I passed a young man standing by the roadside. He had his thumb    and held a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him. There was a time when you’d be called a jerk (混蛋) for passing by somebody _      .
Several days later I was still  _  _ about the hitchhiker (搭便车的人), about how I didn’t even lift my foot  _ _  the accelerator (加速踏板) for him. “Does anyone stop any more?” I wondered. I      Blanche DuBois’s famous line—”I have always depended on the kindness of    .” Was that possible these days? One way to     this would be for a person to journey across the US without any money, just      _ _ on the good will of others. What would happen? Would he find food, shelter and support?
The idea intrigued (激起兴趣) me.
The week I turned 37, I realized that I had never done something truly crazy.      _ _ I decided to really do it: travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. I would only accept        _ of rides, food and places to sleep. For six weeks I hitched 82 rides and covered 4,223 miles across 14 states. I was treated kindly everywhere I went. I was      _ _ by people’s readiness to help a stranger.
In Oregon, a house painter named Mike      _ _ the cold weather and asked if I had a coat. I didn’t, so he gave me a big green army-style jacket. A lumber-mill worker in Michigan named Tim invited me to a(n) _ _ _ _ dinner with his family in their shabby house. Then he offered me a tent. I    , but Tim insisted, packing it into my bag himself. I found people were generally passionate. Hearing I had no money and would take none, people bought me food or      _ _ with them whatever they happened to have. Those who had the _ _ _ _ to give often gave the most.
I’m      _ _ to all the people I met for their rides, their food, their shelter and their gifts. My faith in ordinary folks was      _ _. I am proud to live in a country where people are still willing to help. Now about the hitchhiker I met the other day, I am feeling       _ that I did not stop to take him along .
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