Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...

[Joods]

CIJS

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I haven't heard from you for months. You call and I am instantly greeted with "I need a favor from you and I need you to do this because of all I've done for you." 
"Well hello to you too."
"Well, my grandmother is at xxxx hospital down in Maryland and I want you to go down there and cut her hair for her before she dies. Thing is, I don't have any money to pay you but I figured that since I've gone to court for you all those times and everything else I have done, you could do this for me."
"Okay - first - you've gone to court twice and only testified once."
"Well, I had to get a babysitter and I didn't ask you to pay for that."
"Your mother doesn't count as a babysitter. She's family, but nice try. Second, you are asking me to make a 50 mile round trip. The local court house was four miles into town. Do you have any gas money, say ten bucks?"
"I told you I can't pay you."
"So you can't even chip in ten lousy dollars for me to at least get down there? Rob is the only one working right now."
"Jay is the only one working here and all my money is going in my own gas tank back and forth down there. You need to do this because of everything I've done for you."
"So you want me to spend my own money to put gas in my vehicle to drive into a state where I'm not legally licensed to practice, where my credentials could be asked for, because a hospital is a professional setting and anyone could ask for my license at any time. And you want me to spend the better part of my day doing this and you don't want to pay me?"
"Well I've done a lot for you."
"No. You haven't. Going to the court house twice is not doing a lot for me. I've watched your middle child on several occasions, for free. The only time you call here is if you want something and just now - you couldn't ask me how I was - nope. You just jumped right into a guilt trip and how I owe you. Fuck that shit. I worked hard to get my license and you trying to throw a two instances of where you went to a court house and then forget about everything else that I've done for you, to try and guilt me into cutting hair out of state, and risk my license doing so - and you can't even give me some fucking gas money?" 
Friends don't try to put guilt trips on friends nor do they throw "help" from the past in their faces. You aren't the only one who's done stuff. It's been reciprocated on more than one occasion and for you to try and do this is and ask me to just be okay with that is just low."

No response from her, but her hanging up on me. Nice to know this is how you act when you can't guilt someone into doing your shit for you.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Bye.

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I suspect my list just got bigger.

Nah I wouldn't let you waste your time on such smallness. I've got much bigger fish for you to fry