I saw something really funny years ago. I was driving up Wisconsin Avenue at around 2:30 in the morning, a time of night when the only people on that street are drunk drivers going home to Maryland from the bars of Whore-hey-town. As I approached Tenleytown there was this huge pickup truck barreling down the road ahead of me.
Anyway, we both saw the same thing at the same time -- a slender figure at the side of the road, silhouetted in a streetlamp's glow, long hair flowing in the breeze, thumb held out for a ride.
The truck slammed on its brakes so hard smoke came off the tires, and I had to stop too to avoid hitting it. Then he saw the same thing I did -- the slender figure was a man, with a full beard, looking just like Bob Seger. The truck jammed on the gas and took off just as dramatically as it had stopped, tires peeling as it left the hitchiker behind.