Randomly Inappropriate?

[melyndabelinda]

I used to play World of Warcraft.  Quite a lot actually.  In my Horde raiding guild there was a guy I played with for about a year or so, a shaman, who eventually left the guild to go on to "bigger and better" things.  We were never particularly good friends or anything, we just happened to both be officers in said guild.  The other day I get an

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[melyndabelinda]

I think what offended me, and maybe it was unintentional, was the assumption that I would be willing to contact an old friend for a favor FOR A VIRTUAL STRANGER.

I mean, if he knew my friend had already sent me keys and I had some left over that I wasn't using, I guess that would be okay. I don't think I personally would have the nerve to ask someone I barely knew (not even know anymore, knew) to give me anything, but some people are more nervy than that. But he doesn't know I have keys. He's assuming, or hoping, or wants me to ask Jim for them.

I don't have any. I wasn't even considering asking Jim for any, because I don't really play WoW anymore, but if I did I wouldn't hand them out to strangers over friends.

I think what galls me the most is my own response though. Instead of writing back to say no, and possibly drop in some thinly veiled comments on the rudeness of asking, I lied. I told him I'd "check into it", which I have no intention of doing.

I'm not sure why I respond to most people like this, but it's an old habit and I'm finding it hard to break.

[meallanmouse]

See, your motivation for being annoyed is THE BEST ONE EVER! Because you're thinking of your friend at Blizz and not wanting to impose/abuse of what is likely something delicate and not to be abused while HE wants to try and help as many as he can. So, short version = you rock. =)

[locknestra]

Instead of writing back to say no, and possibly drop in some thinly veiled comments on the rudeness of asking, I lied. I told him I'd "check into it", which I have no intention of doing.

That sounds a lot like customer service training. This is because it sounds like something I say on a regular basis.

[melyndabelinda]

That's basically what I do too.