The first day I ate Chinese fried rice, I fell in love, and it became lunch. l had a friend at work who would buy it for me One day he wanted to get me lunch and I declined. I didn't decline because I wasn't hungry The trick is this: 1. I treated him the way I would like to be treated. 2. I don't want him to get tired of buying me lunch, so sometimes I have to decline and other times I have to pay in his presence because I understand that givers get tired when they give on a regular basis and when they don't receive depending on the relationship. My annoyance with few humans is once you agree to help them once, you automatically agree to help them forever. Givers get tired, so ask with caution and moderation. What humans taught me is a good deed I can't keep up until Jesus comes I shouldn't even start. So before I say yes to a request I have to access the person requesting- will this person make this request over and over again, if the answer is yes, then I