>be me
>I buy a lot of instant noodles at once
>I ask the stockboys to go in the back and get me the large sealed boxes so I don't have to empty their shelf of individual packets and carry a stupid amount of them
>the stockboy I ask tells me to go ask someone else
>so I do, I go ask a stockgirl
>she gets on her store intercom and calls for customer assistance
>lo and behold, guess who appears, the stockyboy who sent me to request assistance elsewhere

would have been quicker if he had just obeyed me from the outset, but some people just like to make things difficult on themselves. He probably lied about their being no boxes in the back, but I don't care, I just took every single one of their singles packets home with me instead.