After crossing into upstate New York I was glad to find this hitchhiker and his big smelly dog. For the car started sounding strange and I always feel nervous then if I do not have a hitchhiker with me. Most of them have mechanical skills from their earlier lives before their family relationships collapsed. This man's wife had found a lover and kicked him out. However, when the car broke down an hour later he was unable to fix the electric problem and we had to stay with my old friend, Nancy Norton, in the mountains two hours away for a whole day.