For starters, the suitors are downright rude to strangers, both in the city and in Odysseus' house. In one instance, "And like a drunken fool / he [Melánthios] kicked Odysseus in the side as he passed" (Fitzgerald. XVII. 297-298). Later that day, Antinous throws a stool at "the man's [Odysseus's] right shoulder / on the compressed muscles under the shoulder blade – / like solid rock, for all the effect that was seen" (XVII. 605-607) . In both cases, the suitors were less than hospitable, and neither thought about the repercussions of their actions from the gods. It seems that the suitors were so accustomed to being rude to strangers, unlike Alkinoös and Eumaois, that they did not feel guilty about being rude. Because they had no responsibility, they felt no guilt and simply believed it was someone else's problem. Revenge would come later with Odysseus' massacre of the suitors. Next, the suitors mock the beggar for wanting food, when in reality they provide nothing of their own to Odysseus' house; they eat his livestock, mess up his dining room, and commit their evil deeds in his dormitories. Penelope comments on their draining of Odysseus' riches by saying, "how they fed their wooing with his cattle, / oxen and fat sheep, and bathed rivers of