When I went to my great-niece's birthday party yesterday, I had carried her birthday gift in a backpack located on the back of my wheelchair.  Everybody was preoccupied with the opening of gifts, so I finally had to ask someone for help in removing the gift I brought with me from the back of my chair.  It was not all that hard making the request, but I still do not like asking for help. Although it did not seem like a large gift to me, my niece and her daughter acted as though it were $1 million.