Honesty

I asked a favor of someone, and explaind to them that I would completely understand if for whatever reason they couldn't do this favor... and I kind of suspected they wouldn't be game for it. What's really annoying to me is that they couldn't just come out and say, "No can do", they had to come up with a milion reasons why it just wouldn't work for me. Makes me crazy. I just wish that humans had that honesty thing down... and that our society/culture/whatever drives us would allow us to say "no" without guilt. I'm not great at that, but when I'm on the receiving end, it does make me want to be better at saying "no" when that's what I need to do. Argh.