When I asked my hotel concierge to show me Via Dante on a Palermo street map, he inquired why.
When I asked my colleague, who has lived in Saigon for some time, about this sudden weakening of the spine, he laughed.
When I asked my wife why she was going to work at 10am rather than 9am, she replied that everyone was coming to work late - because it was cold.
When I asked my old room-mate and former England keeper David Seaman what his ideal game was, I thought he'd say it would be having loads to do without letting any goals in.
When I asked my close friend, a stay-at-home mom, about it, she told me about her own husband, who had to miss the first week that their young son spent at a new school because of a business trip.
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"It hurts me a lot when I remember occasions when I shouted at my sons because I asked them to do something and they ignored it, " he says.
My mum loved me but couldn't express it except through food, when I asked her to look after my three cats within six months they were obese and within two years all were dead!
And the resolution that may emerge from the United Nations, whether -- I think Ann asked me when, and I would refer to my colleagues up in New York on the timing of that.
When I got home, I asked my wife whether she noticed a difference.
"When I was at school my teacher asked us who had to work harder, the poor Africans, or the rich Americans, " he began.
"If you had asked me when I was at my heaviest how being heavy had impacted me, I would have said, 'not at all, '" Jackson says.
And when I began taking flying lessons, my grandmother asked me if it was a good idea.
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Recently, I asked my father why, when gold was banned by executive order 6102 in 1933, everyone gave it up voluntarily.
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So when I got back to the office, I asked my two middle-aged colleagues to try it - David Malakoff and Jon Hamilton.
Loeser also pointed out that my premise was incorrect when I asked whether Bloomberg LP will pay rent to the Bloomberg Foundation for the office space used by Shipley and Rubin.
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The staff nimbly handled my requests, a bartender graciously accommodated my curveball order of a "nonsweet Mojito, " and a spa front desk attendant called me "milady" as he asked my slipper size--an unscripted moment that was even sweeter when I recalled my first visit.
"I was 49 when I was diagnosed, 50 when I received my (bone marrow) transplant, " said Michelle, who asked not to be identified by her full name due to the personal details she's revealing.
Speaking from my own experience, when I left my first job to start my PR company right out of college, my friends asked me if what I was doing was right.
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When my fellow diners asked me what I thought about this transformation, I replied that we would be wise to focus on our behavior as opposed to our new technology.
When I called him Monday, he asked me if I had my head over the wastebasket yet.
My debt increased, and when I was asked to resign, I was living in a bad situation and had no money.
He lays into the "waste and mismanagement" of the EU and, slightly disconcertingly, rounds on BBC News Online, claiming to know what I get up to in my leisure time when asked about claims UKIP has a "Little Englander" attitude.
On my way out, I asked Medina when he put his Korean taco on the menu.
Later, when it came time to pick a job and career, I asked my parents and friends for advice.
Later, when everyone was recovering from the annual tryptophan induced coma, I asked my Gen-Y sous chef what she really thought.
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For example, when I posed this question to my employees, one of them asked if I could follow up each weekly meeting with an emailed summary of what we talked about, so he could have a point of reference for new processes and updates.
Someone asked what I would do when they went out of fashion, my answer is I didn't choose a faddy design.
Mr. SCOTT GARTHLEY (Wounded Veteran): Immediately when I was wheeled in, a member of staff asked me to remove my uniform in case I offended somebody.
When I went through my job interviews with the show, I never asked how I could move up in the organization, and after five years, I was doing essentially the same thing, booking guests, prepping the anchors and working on documentary video segments.
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And when I moved across the country to Los Angeles at 25, my parents asked me why I was doing it.
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