Exactly ...
hitchhiking involves hiking along with the hitching...
otherwise its just bumming a ride...
Maybe he should have called Uber..
Plus he may have been doing the wrong hand signals etc...
In the US and Europe you face the traffic and hold out your right thumb...
in NZ where they traffic is on the other side of the road you walk with your back to the traffic and look over your right shoulder at the cars with your right thumb out making a sweeping motion forward...
“Maybe he should have called Uber..”
lol