… how do I tell one friend, who i’ll be spending most of my time with that I’d rather stay at a hotel than in her tiny apt which does NOT have airconditioning (I cannot sleep at all unless I’m cool and comfortable!)? I know she’ll be hurt with any explanation I offer. Truth be told, staying in a hotel when I travel anywhere has always been my MO, but how do I convey to her in a very gentle way that this is what I prefer to do? btw, the hotel i’d stay at is just few blks from her place and most often we’d travel together anyway, so will stay in hotel together at some point.
Please don’t post back with any meanies!!! Thanking you in advance
p.s. besides the lack of air, she has a cute fat bunny she keeps in a cage wayyyy tooo small for him–I can’t stand seeing him like that… sigh.
Lie and say you got some ficticious relative’s employee discount for the hotel room? Play up whatever extras you’ve got, maybe a swimming pool or a great restaurant.
Tell her since she’s generous enough to take you sight-seeing, you’d never dream of imposing further.
A buddy and I once crashed at a mutual friend’s apartment in Brooklyn that had no AC. In August. I woke up around 5:00am drenched in sweat and miserable, and I stayed miserable until I got off the train later that night and into my own car, where I blasted the AC.
Next summer, we were talking to this mutual friend about coming to visit him in the city again. I said, point-blank, “No way in hell am I staying in that friggin’ hotbox again. That sucked big mosse dick.” He laughed and said “Don’t worry, I finally got AC.” And all was well.
When did friends get so super-sensitive that they would feel bad about being told that a hot day/night without AC is unpleasant?
The rabbit thing I wouldn’t mention, though. That would seem like crossing the line, even to me.
