# To live Bilbo's life?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-live-bilbos-life/814761>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 24, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-live-bilbos-life/814761 "2018-05-24T23:56:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-live-bilbos-life/814761/21 "2018-05-28T14:52:49Z")

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My husband’s grandparents had a house like that, apparently. They were next door to the old General Store in a small town, and his great-grandfather had owned the store (it was still open when his mother was a teenager, and she worked there). People were in and out constantly. There was always pie and coffee. Every morning grandpa would fry a pound of bacon, then deep-fry at least a dozen eggs in the grease, for anyone who stopped by at breakfast time.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-live-bilbos-life/814761/22 "2018-05-29T08:29:00Z")

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I have some friends who love to receive drop-in visitors - even (in most cases) if they are entertaining guests when it happens - I found it a little disconcerting the first time I experienced it, but it seems to work for them and all of their friends and relatives know about it, so it’s just an accepted part of the way things work.

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