God, what a way to become more aware of assholeness. I never thought of it in a passive way and it made a world of difference, because
1) I didn't realize until the moment that I read this post that I do a lot of things to people that I could simply deny because fuck it, I don't wanna do it.
2) It was on automatic. "Could you please do x?" would automatically make me more prone to do it just because.
After reading this, I caught myself in two of such situation. One in which I went out of my way to to get a bag for someone and take it back for him, which I could probably have said "you can do this yourself." The second one was fairly similar to Franco's example with a slight difference: I was seated and next to me there was a wall outlet, and someone handed me a cable and asked if I could plug it into the outlet.
(Just after I plugged it came to mind, "oh, that post from yesterday!")
My BIGGEST problem in whatever social situation at the moment is calibration. I can't quite feel yet if I gone overboard or not. For instance, if I refused to plug the charger in the wall outlet in the second example I gave you, it'd probably make me look like a complete asshole (which would be likely if I was trying to be more of an asshole), and I'm assuming that that's not good.
So, I think that I could refuse getting the bag on the first case, but refusing to plug the charger on the second would probably be a bad way of going asshole, right? Or I'm just being a pussy and refusing on both situations would be OK?