The request may have been respectful in your head, but between there and your keyboard something went to shit and you just pissed off the very people you expect to drop everything and run to your aid.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'