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Dear IMO,

My wife and I are going to vacation with my friend and his wife. We plan on sharing a suite—two bedrooms separated by a doorway. We will have to go into their part of the suite in order to use the bathroom, and if we want to watch some TV, we will have to sit in their room as the TV and couch are situated on their side. We like our friends a lot, but I’m not quite sure how it’s all going to work. We will be saving several hundred dollars by teaming up with them in the suite. Our stay with them will be two nights. Each day we will leave the motel at 8:30 and not return until 9 or 10 in the evening. Have you got any suggestions?

S.J.

Dear S.J.,

There are just two questions you need to ask and then answer. First, how much time will your wife and you be spending in the room? If you will merely be using your room for sleeping purposes only, and you get along with your friends, then the suite idea should be no problem. As the bathroom is on their side of the suite, getting to and fro with out waking or interrupting them may challenge your creativity, but you should be able to solve that problem as well.

Secondly, you must determine how important is your privacy to you? Will you feel embarrassed to cross that threshold when Mother Nature calls at 3:00 am? Does it matter if one of your friends insists on watching The Game Show Network while you want to watch Masterpiece Theater while you’re on vacation? If you can live with these little inconveniences during your trip, then you should have little, if any, trouble staying with your friends in the suite. As for the TV issue, simply bring along a small “boom box” with your favorite CD’s and cassettes or a good book and you’ll discover you can get along with your friends just fine. Just remember to close the door behind you and keep the music at a reasonable level.


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