A friend of my husband’s stayed at our beach place last week. He and his guests have left it spotlessly clean, but they have also left the very expensive umbrella on our deck irreparably broken. This is arguably more damage than our daughters’ friends have made in all the times they’ve come here.
As a result of this, here are the current brownie point standings of visitors:
Assorted rabble of our daughters’ acquaintance: one
Middle aged, middle class white people who should know better: zero