Questions from Christmas Vacation

1. Why do mothers feel the only way to show their love for you is by feeding you obscene amounts of food?
2. Why does everyone always want to go to the Essen Haus?
3. A companion question: What is so appeling about drinking out of the same glass as eight other people?
4. Why do I always have to deal with drunk people passed out in my room? (Ok, maybe it isn't always, but once is enough.)
5. Why does my dad wear his hats like Steve Zissou?
6. Why didn't I run into anyone from high school? (Usually the place is crawling with people I went to high school with. Not that I was particularly interested in seeing people from high school, but where did they all go?)