To begin with, the suitors are downright rude to strangers, whether in town or in Odysseus's house. In one instance, "And like a drunken fool he [Melánthios] kicked Odysseus' hip as he passed" (Fitzgerald. XVII. 297-298). Later in the day, Antinoos throws a stool on "the right shoulder of the man [Ulysses] / on the packed muscle under the shoulder blade - / like a solid rock, for all the effect that has been seen" (XVII. 605-607). In both cases, the suitors were anything but hospitable and neither thought about the repercussions of their actions from the gods. It seems that the suitors were so used to being rude to strangers, unlike Alkínoös and Eumaois, that they did not feel bad about being rude. Since they had no responsibility, they felt no guilt and simply thought it was someone else's problem. Revenge would come later, after Ulysses massacred the suitors. Then the suitors mock the beggar for wanting food, when in reality they provide nothing from their own homes to Odysseus's house; they eat his livestock, they make a mess of his dining room, and they commit their evil deeds in his sleeping quarters. Penelope comments on their leaching of Odysseus' wealth by saying: "how they fed their court with his cattle, his oxen and his herd sheep, and how they watered the rivers of