Ok, picture this:
I had two old 12" chainsaws (roughly 25 years old) that my dad left when he died. As I have recently moved back to the south, I decided to get them running. My sister in law lives up in the woods and told my wife that she'd like one for her b-day. Fine I said, and I took both to a repair guy and paid for it to be fixed (bad diaphragms and such). Anyway, my wife told her that I was "really excited" to teach her how to use it but she didn't want that...she'd look it up on the internet. Ok, kind of a slap in the face. Ok, could I at least teach you a few safety/maintenance things? No, none of that either, she'd learn it all on her own. My wife had to explain to her that since it was my dad's chainsaw that it was important to me to show her...and then she finally got it, but never apologized. Now, she has a few limbs to cut and for whatever reason the saw isn't running so well. She called today and started b*tching to my wife about it and apparently took it to a local guy there and he said that it "doesn't even have a knuckle guard...it's a POS" (ok, since when did 25 year old chainsaws have knuckle guards?)...so she's complaining and is giving it back.
Where I grew up this was called looking a gift horse in the mouth. I'm really quite offended by this and told her she was very rude on the phone just then. Am I overreacting?!
BTW, she's a social worker (degreed) and works for Hospice. You'd think she'd have a little skill with inter-personal stuff.