The further back you go, the more likely your guests were going to want to live with you for a while.
As an introvert this might as well be a horror movie.
Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Other people have touched on it, but I really want to emphasize how completely ordinary it used to be to go to someone’s house uninvited, unannounced. Well into the telephone age, it was regularly done. And you were expected to always invite them in.
If you wanted to appear to be an at least minimally functional member of society, you would keep some sort of snack food, a cake, cookies, scones, muffins, et cetera, constantly in stock so that you could offer refreshments to literally any person anyone in your household had ever met in their lives, showing up at your door at absolutely any time.
Refreshments were the bare minimum. The further back you go, the more likely your guests were going to want to live with you for a while.
billwashere@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Recently got a friend into anime and he was complaining how unrealistic it was for a unannouced guest to just be invited in, given a spare bedroom and given food and drink no questions asked basically.
To be fair while it was a shit isakai and very nonsense. This bit of it was an extremely accurate depiction.