Family secrets

Weekend, Etc. editor Jenni Glenn took to the streets this week to ask students three highly personal questions about their family relationships. Here are some of the most amusing answers she managed to pry out of them:

What do you do to prepare when your family is coming to visit?

"Wake up."

- Adam Wilson, Engineering junior

"I pick up all the trash in the living room."

- Tim Winslow, LSA junior

"Make sure all the beer's out of the house so they don't get the wrong impression that I'm a complete lush."

- Mike Sparkman, LSA senior

"I get the laundry ready."

- Aram Najarian, LSA junior

What do you and your family argue about?

"My mom always says, 'When are you going to pay me back?' I say, 'For what?' She says, 'College.'"

- Rebecca Shelby, LSA senior

"Whether I'm a know-it-all or not."

- Gena Brooks, graduate student

"With my mom, I argue about everything. Everything from how much sleep I get to whether or not she should let me buy a motorcycle."

- Alex Chadsey, Music sophomore

"Sharing the car. That's huge."

- Tim Winslow, LSA junior

"I have nothing to argue with them over. I'm never home."

- Mike Cohen, Business senior

What is the most embarrassing thing your family ever did to you?

"My parents asked out a girl in a restaurant for me once."

- Brad Turnwald, LSA junior

"When I was little and I'd go to the store with my dad, he'd sing out loud. ... He still does it."

- Elizabeth McNamara, LSA

freshman

"Freshman year when I came out here, my mom sent me a little care package ... and it had condoms in it."

- Stuart Wood, Business senior

"My mom's always the loudest person in any audience. It doesn't matter what the show is, she's always going to be clapping and whistling. She's always drawing attention to herself."

- Alex Chadsey, Music sophomore

"My brother pushed me into one of the fountains at Disney World. ... It was cold, too."

- Mike Cohen, Business senior

"My father found a tap to a keg in my closet once. He was in a car with me and my friends, and he was asking me about it. He didn't know what it was. He thought it was for enhancing female sexual pleasure."

- Aram Najarian, LSA junior