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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is your reaction when someone asks for a burdensome favor and upon offense, shrugs and says, "I was just asking the question." Was the responder not supposed to get offended because it's "just a question" and he or she can freely say no? Or is it ever valid to be annoyed that some even considered asking something burdensome of you that he or she could handle themselves without putting it on your plate? I'm starting to think there are two kinds of people in the world - those that are "just asking the question" and those that don't want to deal with being asked for burdensome favors as if they don't have a lot going on already. For the record, I'm the latter. You?[/quote]

I'm neither.  I don't think being asked is something that requires that much energy to deal with -- I just say no.  I also don't ask people for what I think are big favors lightly.  So I'm not offended by someone asking.  [b]If you get annoyed just because people are asking, and you feel this way a lot, maybe you have a really low threshhold for what counts as "burdensome." [/b] [/quote]

+1  OP if you have a sample size greater than 1 of people who ask burdensome requests and then say "I was just asking the question," you are dealing with one idiosyncratic person or you're easily "burdened".[/quote]

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