Yeah, with the dinner the payment is influenced by whether you come and what you order. With the vacation home it's already paid for. Friends of ours literally

Yeah, with the dinner the payment is influenced by whether you come and what you order. With the vacation home it's already paid for. Friends of ours literally invited us to come visit them during their vacation and stay at the rented vacation home because it had a spare bedroom. It didn't feel as awkward as the author makes it out to be, though we did feel the need to ask for reassurance that we weren't inconveniencing them. We also didn't stay for the full term.