Comment by tetha

Hm, interesting. I guess me with northern german heritage am very much more of an Ask-Person.

But this is missing an important part of the ask-aspects: You can put needs and issues onto peoples radar.

Like, someone recently just asked me if I have a kiln to sell. I very much don't have a kiln I don't need to sell and I had a good laugh about the request. But interestingly, someone else I know apparently knows how to setup kilns and he'd help if there was a kiln to sell and he's now talking to the other dude about kilns.

This is very much how things work in rural nothern germany or northern germany overall. You just ask around if you need something, people learn what you need, and suddenly someone is like "Yo, this friend of a brother of the owner of a goat my sister owns has this thing and you mentioned you could need it three years ago and he wants to get rid of it. Could he come over tomorrow?"