Almost twenty years later, I still remember this guy’s chutzpah with admiration. He needed a condom, urgently, which implied what he planned to do as soon as he found one. But he wasn’t afraid to reveal all this to a stranger and ask for help—two things that are usually one-way tickets to social anxiety. He could have easily thought, She’s going to think I’m creepy/weird/perverted, and snuck away, but instead he knocked, showed his face, and asked like it was no big deal.