<VV> We like to be asked?...maybe begged...

[Secular]

  volunteer (n.)  

  c.1600, "one who offers himself for military service," from M.Fr. voluntaire, 
  noun use of adj. meaning "voluntary," from L. voluntarius "voluntary, 
  of one's free will" (see voluntary). Non-military sense is first recorded 1638. 
  The verb is first recorded 1755, from the noun. Tennessee has been the 
  Volunteer State since the Mexican War, when a call for 2,800 
  volunteers brought out 30,000 men. 

  http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=volunteer

  Now raise your hand if you are of the belief that James K. Polk (the then 
  US? President) sent an individual/personal volunteer request to 30,000 men ;-)

  The mindset of "I like to be asked" perhaps belongs to the zone when your 
  partner in life reminisces about how you got married. Simply volunteer since 
  waiting for that red carpet and that knock on the door by a blonde 
  CORSA? BoD, is gonna get you more gray hair :)

  It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice...

  Regards,


  Tony I.