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.

[mama-hogswatch.livejournal.com]

I call that the "if you give a mouse a cookie" syndrome.

Melanie is wise...

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

(blink, blink)

[lrc.livejournal.com]

I used to call that visiting my dad.

He'd ask me to come over for help with something, and while I was there, there would be two hours worth of "one more thing". One time when he asked me to help him with something, I asked what else he'd need me to do, because my schedule was rather tight, and he got pissed off and hung up on me.

Not one of the things that I miss about him.