Perhaps I Am Being Unreasonable, But

I would like to think that if a certain favor is done for a certain unnamed person (or persons...? How mysterious I am!) and if other people are in need of a favor that is, in the measurement of favors, a much smaller and less painful favor, that certain people would feel as if it would behoove them to offer to help out other people, as it would be a wonderful relief to the other people and only a minor ass-pain to certain people.

But sadly, sometimes certain people are absorbed in what they are occupied with, such as, say, the consumption of pastry, and it doesn't occur to them to help out other people, even though other people would have done so if roles were reversed, and let's not even get into the fact that other people were awfully cold and miserable by the time they got home.

Surely, that's not unreasonable. Surely.