Yeah, I don’t think Americans realize just how merciful our own inflation problems have been by comparison to other countries who have been having it way worse. It’s still a problem either way, of course, but…keeping that perspective in mind definitely helps.
But this is an important lesson for Phoebe—just because you like something a whole lot, doesn’t mean everybody else will universally like it too. And that’s okay, as we all have our differing tastes. It’s what makes us all unique.
This family, apparently, because this is a routine occurrence in their household. You’d think they’d have learned after the twelfth or thirteenth time it happened, but nope! :P
And it’s got a human-specific cloaking device, so their human servants don’t notice and try to meddle with it.