Now that the final round of emails for the Stranger Experiment have gone out, I thought you might have fun reading what’s on people’s minds these days. If you could ask a random stranger for help with something, with no fear of rejection, what would you ask for? Here’s what the folks participating in the Stranger Experiment came up with:

  1. I want to meet someone who teaches adults how to perfect their swimming strokes for the purpose of more efficient lap-swimming– and who will give inexpensive private lessons in Brookfield or Wauwatosa. -t.t.
  2. I want to meet a college girl who has experience babysitting, comes with references, and is available daytimes or evenings and can drive to my house in Whitefish Bay. -e.d.
  3. I want to meet George W. Bush. -k.s.
  4. I want to sell and deliver my interpersonal skills training, which was written specifically for the IT personality type. -s.t.
  5. I want to meet people who rehab or resell foreclosed houses. -k.c.
  6. I want to meet a genius online marketer who has taken some website(s) from zero to millions of hits per month. -a.c.
  7. I want to meet someone from Sheboygan who will go to the taste of chicago with me in july. -d.e.
  8. I want to meet someone else who is interested in learning more about practicing yoga. -e.s.
  9. I want to share my interest and experience with worm composting with others who might be interested in it. -d.k.
  10. I want to meet people who can give me firsthand (or close to it) information about the US Coast Guard so I can make a decision on which job and station I want to sign on to. -b.s.
  11. I want to meet someone in the Milwaukee area who works fulltime as a freelancer. Doesn’t really matter what exactly it is that they do. I just want to talk to someone who freelances fulltime because it’s something I’ve considered and have questions about. -b.k.
  12. I want to meet community minded folk that like to serve youth. -k.r.
  13. I want to meet someone interested and very serious about forming a web/graphic design company. -e.s.
  14. I want to record a hit single with Eminem. -m.w.
  15. I want to meet someone who can mentor me and help me grow and hold me accountable. -k.f.
  16. I want to meet someone who worked for Delco Electronics between 1970 and 1995. -d.g.
  17. I want to share my media with someone new! -d
  18. I want to meet someone who is involved with marketing communications/advertising for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, or any other major or minor league sports team. -a.m.
  19. I want to meet Aaron Lewis (of Staind). -c.f.
  20. I want to find someone to sit with me and teach me the basics of CSS. -k.c.
  21. I want to meet someone who has successfully outsourced a big portion of their small business to India. -s.j.
  22. I want to meet someone (a woman) who wants to go for a walk in Milwaukee. -j.d.
  23. I want to create an economical live/work space for inspired living, private practice, and dynamic workshops. -k.t.
  24. I want to meet someone who could offer useful advice on finding job opportunities for ex-pat Americans in the Netherlands, Belgium, and/or Luxembourg. -j.m.
  25. I want to meet a man who plays musical instruments and shares the same passion for music that I do. -b.h.
  26. I want to meet someone who can help me learn more about PhotoShop! -j.d.
  27. I want to meet someone to practice Japanese with. (Face-to-face in Milwaukee is best, but online could work too.) -m.k.
  28. I want to meet someone who can tell me about Flash developer internship opportunities. -t.c.
  29. I want to meet someone who can affordably create and write a monthly newsletter for a business I’m starting. -r.r.
  30. I want the war to end! -h.l.

Wow! What great variety!

Surveys are out to the participants right now, and I’ll post again soon with the results to let you know how well the experiment worked for everyone.