You can totally hitch hike to Chicago, what are you talking about?

[ she doesn't completely connect the dots that by saying you can't, he's saying that's not safe and i don't want you to do that. she thinks he's just... unaware, in the same way that he was unaware that you could redirect internet traffic over a vpn in order to watch international netflix streams or that it was possible to set up an if/then protocol to turn his lights on when he dialed a number on his phone.

technology, she figures, is the missing link here. functional capacity, not the safety ratings or rationality behind it. ]

I mean, it's not a direct shot or anything, but you can totally do it. I used to pick up people in my van all the time to make a little money.

[ not for gas, but for food. so she wouldn't starve. but that's a little... heavy... for this conversation. ]