Being asked to do things I’m about to do!

I’m in work and it’s just your normal wedding afters. There I am looking over at my table to make sure the guests have everything they need and I spot a nearly empty water jug. I immediately hop into action and make my way over to the table to pick up the water jug and refill it. “Sorry there”, I say as I try to make some room for myself to reach in to the middle of the rather crowded table. Then just as I’m about to reach in, a woman taps me and asks me would I be able to fill up the water jug. My teeth to begin to grind in pure frustration and understandably so. It is quite frustrating because I had already noticed that the water jug was nearly empty and was taking the required steps to restore the supply of water to the dehydrated table!

By asking me to fill the water jug it portrays me in a very bad light altogether because immediately this woman will feel that the service was bad because she had to ask someone to fill the water up for her but I wasn’t going to walk up to the table and announce “Hi, I’ve noticed you’ve run out of water. Let me fetch you some more”. Not only would I sound gay but I’d also be like a human version of the infamous Microsoft Paperclip and that couldn’t be good. It also doesn’t get across the fact that I had actually noticed the water needed filling and I’d feel very cheeky if I said “Yes, I noticed. I was just about to fill it” because I know myself as a customer that I’d consider that to be cheeky. I go and fill up the water jug and bring it back to the table and I don’t get one “Thanks”, because they all feel that they shouldn’t have had to ask for me to fill the water in the first place. BUT I WAS GOING TO FILL IT ANYWAY!

It happens at home all the time as well. Say I’m the kitchen for example and then I hear my TV on upstairs. I leave the kitchen and on my way up the stairs to turn it off my mother shouts out to me that I should turn off my TV while I’m up there. IT’S THE ONLY REASON I WAS GOING UP THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!

Maybe there must be some sort of telepathy going on here or maybe people are puzzled by my presence and want to know what I’m doing there so all of a sudden their mind goes into overdrive and my mother starts to faintly hear the television and the fat woman at the table notices that there’s a water jug on the table that needs to be refilled. Then they think they’re great for noticing and deem it necessary to bring the matter to my attention - a matter that I had already managed to bring to my attention by myself.

It is frustrating though!