Please explain this to me.

[HeiressofBickworth]

8. My mother was a real estate agent in the 60's

so she sometimes had clients or brokers or other sales people over to the house. (side note: every Saturday she would dole out the chores and say, "and I want this house to look like no one lives here".) She only served The Best alcohol (you know -- impressions). My father on the other hand was an alcoholic, started drinking until time to go to bed and pass out. It made her furious when she would go to serve a guest a nice drink and the bottle would be empty or even worse, replaced with some cheap junk. I remember one time she went into a rage and dumped all the alcohol down the drain, right in front of him. Didn't make any difference in the long run.

She was an occasional drinker but never to excess. Me? Never have been much of a drinker. And my house, while not dirty, looks like a family lives here.