When we last visited Michigan, we stayed at some friends’ place. Our flight landed shortly after midnight. The friends were up at their lake house, so we got a ride from the airport to their house, used their garage door code to get into the house, and started dragging our luggage in.

As we turned on the lights, a young man with a somewhat annoyed look on his face appeared. We stared back at each other. I said “Hello.”

The young man said “Hello.”

We looped the Hellos a few more times. I decided that this wasn’t getting anywhere, so I tried “We’re friends of the <friends last name>, They invited us to stay while they were gone.”

He said “Oh! I’m their son <son’s name>, I just stopped by for the night.”

After this, we all stood down. I decided that I didn’t need to kill <son’s name> and <son’s name> decided that he didn’t need to kill us. We relaxed a bit.

During all of this, we couldn’t help but notice that a) <son’s name> was wrapped in a blanket and b) he didn’t seem to be wearing anything else.

We continued to drag in our luggage in, <son’s name> went off and put some pants on. We relaxed a bit more.

When we got up the following day, there was no sign of <son’s name>. Presumably, he’d gone to the family gathering at the lake house. When Pam spoke with our friends, she mentioned that <son’s name>’s had been there. (Pam skipped the “only wearing a blanket” bit). The friend was quite surprised. She didn’t know that her house was a hotel for her offspring during her absence.

Still, for us, it was a very nice place to stay.