Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Why Do People Bother?
Recent conversation with neighbors:
ToolSheds: I support what you are doing and I think it’s great. If there’s anything we can do to help you, you let us know. You are wonderful and we like you. You need anything, anything at all, we will help you. Just let us know.
Me: Can you bring (subject) up to (a certain place about 1/2 hour drive time away) since I can’t get the time off to do it myself?
ToolSheds: Oh! No, we can’t do that! That’s too fucking far!
These people do nothing all day long. Well, they do sit on their porch and drink and smoke cigarettes but other than that, nothing at all. All day long. Every day. Day in and day out. Their schedules are completely open.
I’ve noticed over the years that people do this shit a lot. Look, kids, don’t fucking offer shit if you have no intention of actually following through. I hate that phony crap. “Let me know if you need anything.” “Let me know how I can be of help to you.” “Whatever you need, just come to me, I’ll help.” “It doesn’t matter what time of day, if you need anything, I’m here.” “I have your back if you ever need anything.”
Oh shut the fuck up. Bunch of gottdamned liars.
Don’t give me your, “let’s do lunch” line to make yourselves feel better. Sometimes in this life we need help with something and it would be nice to know that if you actually do need help with something, those assholes who stated that you could rely on them to help you out with ANYTHING would actually fucking help you out.
I don’t ask for a lot of help. I’d much rather do as much as I can by myself because I sure as fuck don’t need some twat telling me, later, all the things he/she has done for me as if they are keeping some sort of list and now I owe them. But, when I DO ask for help, it’s usually something that I cannot do because of time or have no knowledge how to do it. And I shouldn’t have to fucking pay for help every damn time I get it. What happened to people being friendly and neighborly? Have we never heard the word, “favor”? Shall I start charging every time I help someone? How stupid is that?
But what irritates me the most are the phony shitheads who prance around acting as if they are great people boasting that they are there for you with anything no matter what. But, when that time comes that you actually need some help, little help that it may be, (seriously, 1/2 hour driving is too much for you? Seriously?), they balk. It’s like they never thought you would actually take them up on their phony offer.
Do not tell someone that you are there for them, no matter what, unless you fucking mean it.
So, to answer one of the most frequently asked questions I get in real life, “Why don’t you ever ask for help?”
Now you know. 
