A woman tried to steal 3 hours of my time today

Waa it an emergency? Nope. Did I have some special skill? Nope. Any good reason why i should do it instead of you?

Once it was established that this was a time burglary in progress I offered to help her ask for help.

Pro tip: send them away w instructions is useless, they'll flub them on purpose. Not cuz they are unable to follow them either

Turns out she couldn't get help cuz she wouldn't ask for it. Didn't want to reveal how helpless she was pretending to be. So i told her what to say (at no time do anything they can do themselves). "I need your help. I can't get there..."

They're time thieves. From the day they're born til the day they die. Insist that they ask for the amount of time they're stealing.