No need to beg, we give it freely, I'm sure!

I'm reminded of when I worked at the Pentagon for the Navy and my boss, a Commander, when I'd be picking up papers or dropped items from the floor, etc. use to say, "No need to get down on your hands and knees, a simple salute will do". He was funny.

Back then in the mid-70's we had typewriters, no computers, and had to type with like 5 carbon copies, all letters perfectly, we weren't allowed any mistakes or erasures because our letters went to cabinet-level department heads and Congressional committees, etc. But my boss use to like to stand around and try to make one make a mistake when one was typing :-) He succeeded and I tore out the paper and carbons, balled them up and threw them at him. Only I missed and it bounced off a doorframe and hit the lead secretary (my age we were "friends") and she started blaming me and I'm yelling at him that he made me mess up and he was to quit yakking at me. He was hyperactive so always on the move :-) and we were a long, thin office space with multiple doors in and out so he'd often go out one and come back in the other 2 seconds later which he did, adding to the sense of chaos, and saying, "And I'm not a yak. . . I'm a baby llama."