Selective not in honesty, but in compliance

My strong preference and basic default is to be selective in my compliance, rather than selective in my honesty. 

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I am aware the ratio isn't like this for everyone, and am usually still patient and overall appreciative towards others who aren't just like me this way, in spite of our differences. But I am getting frustrated with how often that same patience is not extended back towards me.

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This reflection was triggered by a very frustrating set of incidences in a medical setting where my clarifying questions on someone's weird clarifying questions was obfuscating a medical process for no good reason.

By the middle of the second round, I just stopped and said, "no," escalating to a repeated "no, it will be fine".

If someone is going to make my life THIS unnecessarily difficult one response to me being honest and compliant, after a point I will just stop being compliant.

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Lol it takes me a while to get there sometimes, but I love that moment when I remember that I don't have to start being dishonest to start being noncompliant.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm not a rebellious person or promoting a contrarian attitude. But sometimes people are simply unreasonable or push too far, and it's not something you get to control. But, in many cases you can still have integrity without cooperating with things that are not right for people to be demanding.)