I was on my way home from work yesterday evening when a guy in a pickup truck hollered at me. I followed my usually policy (ignoring it), but he actually pulled the truck over.

GUY IN TRUCK: Excuse me, can you tell me where to find -
He’s drowned out by a passing bus.
ME: What was that?
GIT: Strip clubs!
ME: What?!
GIT: I’m supposed to meet my friends, they told me there were a bunch around here, like right together.
ME: Well, Déja Vu is a couple of blocks up the street, and Lusty Lady is down on First.
GIT: That’s it?
ME: That’s all I know about. You could try asking one of those guys standing around on the corner.

Now, the GIT didn’t seem like he was getting his jollies from asking a single woman on the street to give him directions to a strip club - I would have given him very different directions if I thought that were the case. I was reasonably sure he was just a loser with poor judgment to match his poor sense of direction. I had spent a few blocks puzzling over this and was waiting at a light when an attractive Japanese woman standing next to me got my attention with a little wave.

AJW, in hesitant and heavily accented English: Excuse me, please, what day is it? Saturday? Sunday?

I smiled and said, "Sunday," realizing just before I answered that she was asking me resolve linguistic rather than temporal confusion. For a split second I thought it must have something to do with the International Date Line.

She thanked me as we crossed the street, and I started to wonder what it was about me tonight that made strangers think I could answer their questions. I was also thinking that, structurally speaking, this walk home would make a better entry with three queries rather than two. And that’s when one of the pair women I was approaching said to her companion, "Let’s ask her."

W1: Excuse me, do you know if there’s an internet café near here?
ME: Well, there was, but it caught fire a couple of years ago.
W2: Our friend told us about a place called the Bistro or something like that...
ME: The Speakeasy?
W1: That’s it!
ME: Yeah, that’s the one that burned down.

I gave them some other options, and then continued on to my building.

There were no further queries.