A friend asks me to watch their pet in the afternoon. I work from home generally but I have meetings with people that afternoon and say I can't watch their pet. The friend then asks if my meetings are at my house or if they are telemeetings.
They're ignoring my response when I said 'no' and digging to see if I'll be at home (in which case their pet can roam around) even though I said I can't watch their pet.
Is there a word for this?
Your friend won't take no for an answer. According to Dictionary.com.
Not accept a refusal, be persistent in demanding something, as in I want you to show me the statements and I won't take no for an answer. This idiom was first recorded in 1930 in Winston Churchill's My Early Life : “Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure.”
Let's not be too hard on your friend; he probably doesn't have a back-up pet sitter.
Your friend is badgering you.
To ask or nag ... in an annoying and persistent way; pester: badgered the boy into cleaning his room.
