How To Ask A Favour
This rant Is directed at You, yes YOU…You people who, when asking a favour, put on a strange jokey accent, as though to try and fool me into
a) giving you money you know and I know you will never give back even when I moan at you every single week,
b) going to see a rubbish band who are rubbish, and the only reason you are going is because your girlfriend is making you and you want to drag your good friend down with you and
c) doing your shift on a day when the weather is predicted to be very hot and sunny and completely un-English-like. Which is just plain cruel and should be outlawed!
Just stop now. Please. Enough people have been hurt. I knew far too many people who did this when I worked with enigin scam last year.
HERE, as featured below, is how to ask someone to do you a favour, in the polite way that ALL people should abide by. “Hello Mark,” – using normal every day voice, please – “I was wondering, there is this really awful band playing and my girlfriend is dragging me along…it’ll probably be rubbish…It really definitely will be rubbish…but I don’t suppose you might consider coming anyway? It’d be good to see you mate.” I consider, am pleased you are doing this properly, and I say, “well, I do feel sorry for you, and it would be good to hang out. So why not? I’ll meet you there.” There, it really is very easy when you get the hang of it, and nobody needs to get hurt.
The result of doing it this way is that your friend will think you are a decent person, for once, and the next time you ask him / her if he / she wants to go to see a rubbish band, although they may well say “no way, not after last time”, at least you’ll have your friendship afterwards.
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