"She's always walking up to strangers of status and asking them questions.
No stranger to celebrity status, the updated traditional-style house counts television producer Laurie McCarthy and actors Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen among its previous owners.
You will have failed to develop your better self the moment you are afflicted by the power of unkind strangers bearing Elite Status Membership, shoving you aside in their skilled race to a new boarding gate.
Spowers is no stranger to challenging the status quo, having worked on the hydrogen-powered LIFECar, a demonstration hydrogen-powered vehicle developed by a consortium that included Morgan Motor, the defence contractor QinetiQ, Cranfield University and Oxford University.
Yet thousands of marriages are broken or reduced to the status of strangers who have forgotten why they are together.
In the aftermath of mass terrorism, anthrax-laced mail and the serial murders of randomly chosen strangers, the uniquely threatening status of sexual predators may be debatable.
The high-users include plenty of grown-ups with real jobs and, seemingly, better things to do with their time than updating their "status" for strangers, former colleagues and camp buddies from 300 years ago.
It seems dubious to say that we should transcend tribe and be utilitarian because all people are equal, when the equal status of strangers and kin is an unproven and counterintuitive assumption.
The trials are similar: the exposure to the elements, the lack of sleep, the stockpiling of weapons, the constant threat of physical harm, the lack of status, the strangers with whom you must quickly learn to bond and the presence of death and illness as everyday sights.
