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For some reason (who am I kidding for a big reason) this has always bothered and boggled my mind. Why can’t people just get up and get their own things. Don’t get me wrong asking for the favor once or twice is fine, but once 20000 people start asking me to get a calculator for them it makes me wonder why I’m the only one who’s getting up.

99% if the time it's because people are lazy. I don't support laziness for tasks that don't require any mental strain. You probably think that I am over reacting but after being the one who has done the “extra” work for people many times, it does get annoying. You try to be helpful and people abuse your act of kindness. Funny how suddenly everyone knows my name after I get up. At first I tolerated it but after seeing that people literally relied on the ones who are willing to move made me pull out some childish tricks (trust me even I know that they are immature). For the people who never got up, glued to there seat I suppose, I pretended I didn’t hear their cries of despair, anguish, and fear at the thought of getting up and moving out of their seat. After they realized their cries where for no avail they would get up and get their things. Gasp, miracles, they can move! Like I said, I will sa y yes if you ask me, but if you ask me every single time, trust me it'll get on my nerves. Especially when I’m busy and still go get the stuff only to find out that you were just sitting down doing nothing. If you have time to sit down and look at the stars, you have time to get a pair of scissors.

On that note I will say that I feel equally the same when people ask me for paper because their binder is too “far away”. By “far away” I mean under their desk, really? I don't get it. Same with pencils, people refuse to go into their backpacks that are right in front of them and get out a pencil. And you know what’s worse about all this? If you say to no any of these request people think you are rudest person in the world. So please, let us all do each other a favor and use our limbs to get our stuff, yay for productivity, thank you.