• Asking about the presence of others
• Asking too much personal information
• Not taking “no” for an answer
• Being charming and nice to the point of being creepy
• Using slight insults to achieve their goal
  (“You are not one of those bureaucrats are you?”)
• Using unsolicited promises to achieve their goal
  (“I promise to leave just as soon as I get that map.”)
• Providing excessive or irrelevant personal information about themselves