Short Story: When helping is not helping

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John was seated in his local church with his wife, when she suddenly gave him a sharp poke into his ribs, and speaking out of the corner of her mouth, but still rather loudly, she said, "Get up John, and take up the collection." "Can't you see that nobody else is volunteering to do it, and the Pastor has called twice already for someone to do it?" John ignored his wife. 'If she wanted to volunteer for this, let herself getup, and do it,' he thought to himself. John also knew that there were trusted, and appointed designated people who were assigned every week to this task, so that some joker, like himself, who might pilfer some of the funds as they collected them, would not be tempted in this way. The usual people, obviously were asleep, and would eventually rise to their task, John surmised to himself, which they did, after the third call from the Pastor, from out the front, was made. (A lady, seated in the seat in front of John, and his wife, hearing John's wife's loud request, had gotten up herself to take up the collection, when John didn't move, but she was, of course, sent back to her seat, by the now attendant officers too.) Sometimes, people have no idea what they are asking, and need to be ignored, at the time of the asking, as this is the correct thing to do, and not get up half-cocked, to answer the call of someone, when they are not versed/assigned to in procedural tasks, such as this was. Society runs smoothly when the right people are doing the tasks given, and allocated, to them to do. We do not need neersays, trying to butt in, with their own half-baked attempts at doing things, not in the right way. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com There is a time for proper procedure to lord it over unqualified helpfests.