In that particular situation, saying "no I don't know" would be only acceptable behavior, imo.
If I am asking for my keyboard back, I should not have to physicality touch or fight you to get it back. Regardless of what you think about me.
If I am asking for my keyboard back, I should not have to physicality touch or fight you to get it back. Regardless of what you think about me.
EDIT: In my head, I feel like you've given up on the idea that I can help you, and you're probably going to go find someone smarter and more competent than me. In this context, a guy who doesn't want to give the keyboard back is afraid of admitting failure.
If you don't know answer, the normal response is no. I don't want you to highjack my computer and completely prevent me from working. That is ridiculous. And it is not solution either - it is literally preventing me to solve it.
> However, men are hearing "Can you solve this problem for me". Giving you back the keyboard means admitting that I failed to fix it.
Then men should fcking learn how to parse human language. Because based on this, betweem them not being able to interpret direct speech and then supposedly being unable to interpret hints, there is not much space. How exactly am I supposed to communicate? And none of this is believable, because above interaction rarely happens against other men.
The whole "he is trying to fix it while women just want to talk" is insulting in situation when he is preventing me to solve thing, when he is not solving anything and I was not chatty at all.
It was long ago so I don't really remember if the phrasing was "do you know..." or not, but yeah now I agree that just give people direct answers and maybe an open offer like "do you need another set of eyes?" or just leave them alone.