it’s not my problem

what you say when someone else asks for your help with a so-called “emergency”. while this response may indeed be fully valid/appropriate in cases where the asker is unreasonably seeking -ssistance and/or should be seeking said -ssistance elsewhere, it unfortunately can also be abused, wherein the speaker may be wrongfully denying the asker reasonable or “golden rule” help — in other words, the same type/degree of -ssistance that he himself would logically expect from others if he had a similar unexpected crisis in his own life.
stranded motorist: thanks so much for coming out in the rain to give me a jump-start, buddy! bless your heart!
redneck hippie in an ancient ford f-150: no problemmo, dude — it’s only what i’d want myself if i was in this same situation. i’m just sorry you walked all that distance to ask me for help… there’s a fairly well-off family who lives a good quarter-mile nearer here than i do, and they have several nice vehicles that they could have helped you with.
motorist: yeah, well i actually did ask there, and the smooth-skinned older hombre who came to the door with a tv-remote in his hand just told me curtly, “it’s not my problem — you should have remembered to turn off your headlights.”

redneck: really?!?? well, that totally sux — i guess he’s just never had any problems like this, and so he doesn’t know that errors like that can happen to anyone!