The funny thing is the guy's mom showed up a few days later and was a really sweet lady who fed me dumplings and stuff. So I refrained from asking how she raised her son. (To be fair, I am pretty sure there was some miscommunication and he thought he was providing an empty apartment. With no food in it. At all. Which no one communicated to me.)

But me, I find it funny because it's that baffling.

Yes! Like you would eat her out of house and home if she so much as offers you a snack. Yogurt and cold-cuts alone stand between her and starvation! But alas, unwanted relatives descend upon her home like Penelope's suitors.

(There exist in the world people who do eat dinner without offering to everyone in the house? What?)

Ah, family. Better than television.

(But someone who says that to kin, what would they say to a stranger?)

Many have "approv'd the ancient truth,
That kindred commonly do worse agree
Than remote strangers."