But on a sober day, the 39-year-old was surprised when a stranger called her by name as she crossed the street.
He was waiting at a bus stop near Waterloo Bridge, London, when a stranger jabbed him in the leg with an umbrella.
When a stranger who did wear a beard and who never once was seen hatless appeared every few months after dark to ask in broken English for a contribution toward the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, I, who wasn't an ignorant child, didn't quite know what he was doing on our landing.
When a tall, handsome stranger in a tux sidles up to you at No. 10.
For many years, psychologists have believed (and have found data to support) the idea that, when somebody encounters a stranger, the stranger's characteristics are slotted into three pigeon-holes: sex, age and race.
When you first meet a stranger, unless you're a mugger, you want to be nice to that stranger.
When the stranger was a dozen steps away from the truck and casting a long shadow on the beach, he held his position.
It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.
It was a crime that saw the nation catch its breath: two constables hurrying to answer what they thought was a call for help from a stranger when, upon the ordinary lawn of an unremarkable house, their lives were cut short in an explosion of bullets and grenade shrapnel.
Twitter has its own dangers, as we saw this week when a Clark, NJ teen posted that there was a stranger in her home and she asked people to call 9-1-1 .
After all, as these Warby Parker or Ray-Ban-designed devices become more fashionable (ie: innocuous), most of us won't even know if we are being filmed when gazed at by a bespectacled stranger.
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Monetary requests of any nature are likely to be more compelling when issued by a friend versus a stranger.
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It's a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
Last month, two men were killed when they were propelled into the path of a train by a stranger.
This was my life, these were the times when I was true: in these half hours here and there when I felt alone in the house, or those fleeting moments out on the road, when I opened a gate and crossed an empty farmyard, a stranger, even to myself, in the quiet of the afternoon.
This time, a summons for help by a stranger, Darla (Anamaria Marinca), goes awry when an eyestalk abruptly bores out her forehead and palm.
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Also at Monell Center, faculty member Pamela Dalton showed that stress levels decreased faster when people were exposed to the body odor of a family member rather than that of a stranger or a neutral fragrance.
When that stranger uses the open wi-fi network, the owner of the network gets a free 100 megabytes.
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He said the defendant had assaulted a stranger who was minding his own business, he had made worrying threats, and then when followed by police indulged in dangerous driving.
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One of the stranger moments of the Telecosm get-together comes on the final day, when Mr Gilder leads a discussion on the religious meaning of the emerging technology.
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