They don't make a newcomer sit on cold linoleum floor tiles and silently look a stranger in the eye for a full five minutes.
Burning Man gave me the perfect opportunity to be reminded that while I often fall into the trap of being disconnected from those around me, in reality it is within my power to pause, look a stranger in the eye and experience a moment of acknowledgment of each other's presence.
While riding up in the elevator to the fourth floor during lunch hour on Thursday, one man with a considerable frame looked a skinny stranger up and down and huffed, "At least we won't be competing for clothing".
But the Newcomer, this teacher, well, he looked like a stranger to himself.
Dana Gillespie, who went out with the pre-Bowie David Jones, recalled the shock of going into his house: "David looked like a stranger in his own home.
Writer began using racist epithets after the burglary, and didn't look a black stranger in the eye for four years.
For example, if a guy looks a female stranger in the eye, but he is tense, he is sending the message, "I want to know more about you, but you make me very uncomfortable".
Here we can reasonably conclude that, while Guyotat is looking at a stranger, Marie-Thérèse and Carla are looking at a man they know, although, as is usually (or, in fact, inevitably) the case, their perceptions of him are entirely different.
"I look in the mirror and I swear I'm looking at a stranger," she said.
Drug dealers sometimes employ teenagers as look-outs, briefed to scare off anyone who looks like a stranger.
