I think I might have been asked for directions in Paris from a stranger who turned out to be of my own nationality, but it's possible that I was doing the asking, so maybe you escape that one.

Your wording implies that you think I said I'd been asked. In fact I didn't use the word "been" in that one: it was in fact me doing the asking. (Stop me if I've misread you as if you were misreading me :-)

Oh, yes. Either way, I'm not sure what happened to me. (-: