<p>The parents of DS’s roommate in college treated DS extremely well, even though they are relatively much more upper-middle class than us. We extremely appreciate their kindness.</p>
<p>Because we live thousands of miles from DS’s college, we could not afford to visit him during the parent’s weekend. His roomate’s parents would take DS along when they visited their son, including going to the most expensive resaurant in the (mid-sized) city. When DS offered to pay his share, they always declined.</p>
<p>During one (long) weekend, they even took DS and his son back to their home (which is 200-300 miles away from the campus.) Not only that, because they knew DS is very much into music, they drove his son and DS to a city (likely 30 miles away from their home) to attend an evening concert even though they themselves did not go to the concert; they just dropped them off and picked them up afterwards. They even paid for the tickets, which is not cheap. At the end of the weekend, when DS offered to pay back his share, they allowed DS to pay them $20 or some small amount like that, just to make DS feel a little bit comfortable. It is not enough for an eat-out event during one evening, let alone the price of the ticket to the concert (which may be close to $100?)</p>
<p>Oh…boy, maybe somebody in the world may think DS leeches on them!</p>
<p>When DS was graduated, they even offered to introduce a job for him! (But it happens that he had got a job before that.)</p>
<p>We will forever appreciate their kindness. I heard DS and his roommate still visited each other from time to time since they had graduated and lived in different but not far-apart cities. The last time, they arranged to see school’s football game, as alumni, together (with a few other college roommates.)</p>