And now I will ask perfect strangers at very formal dinners if they would like to buy cookies.

So about this time, I started asking strangers for restaurant tips.

This was in Brooklyn, where people will stop to ask strangers what they are doing and why; but no one even looked up.

We wanted to ask strangers what in their lives they would like to have filmed.

We had no map and were nervous to ask strangers where an address was.

She would ask total strangers: Are you someone or do you get a salary?

He didn't have the nerve to ask random strangers.

I found myself asking strangers at work, 'Oh, do you know anyone?'

People had no right to ask strangers for money.

And he would not need to ask strong-looking strangers on the street to carry him back up.