Piggyback Favoring

[cjsmith]

A definition from the wise and thought-ful melanie

Piggyback Favoring: where a person first asks you for a very small, simple favor, and then as you go to do it, it subtly grows and grows and grows one tiny little increment at a time until it becomes a HUGE FUCKING DEAL, and then you're an asshole if you stop when you realize what is happening and back away.

Good one! I love having a short, handy name for this all-too-prevalent pattern.

Comments

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Closely related to "piggy-back due bills" which is free work promised that escalates until there is no longer any profit in a deal. And is also one of the reasons that I'm cranky today.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Blegh. I hate days like that. Not-A-Doctor CJ prescribes Madeira and the purr of a cat.

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Ah--Madeira and a cat will have to wait until after school. But school is just as good as Madeira and a cat!

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes.

The lesson: always charge. That way you get to keep your friends.