Has This Happened To You?

Sometimes I'll deal with them in futile hopes that they might learn something and retain what I'm trying to get across to them. It doesn't always work, but one can hope. It's in the same category as having our washing machines here at the apartment complex out of order. I put in a work order and suggested that it might be something as simple as the coin boxes needing to be emptied. After two weeks of having the washers being down, I filed another work order request and again stated that it could be as simple as the coin boxes being full. I said in the work order that it was a quick and easy fix that would take maybe 5 minutes at best. Well, this time someone paid attention, and someone came up and emptied the coin boxes. Funny, the washers promptly started working again. I also had explained that they would be in deep trouble if one of the tenants injured themself in taking their laundry to the laundromat. The maintenance person was here in less than fifteen minutes. One of the other tenants is taking great delight in telling everyone that I was the person who got the washing machines fixed. I haven't heard the people in the building putting me down for my intelligence or abilities. It is truly a turnaround for them, now they are wondering "IF" I can teach them. I'm at the point of "Sorry, I'm not into putting up with that kind of frustration when I know that the people I would be dealing with have the intelligence of a over ripe banana. I don't want to have to lower my intelligence levels to accommodate someone else's laziness in not wanting to try to learn new stuff. I also don't want to put up with the put downs about my knowledge or preferences.