My best friend and I share a lot of similarities.
We enjoy the same movies, the same stores, and even the same foods.
It’s what makes our friendship work so well and how we originally became friends. However, there is one big thing that we don’t agree on and that’s the temperature of any given room. I run cold and she runs warm. This means that I’m always seeking to turn the heat on or raise the temperature and she is always trying to turn the air conditioning on or lower the temperature. Whenever we spend time together, we try to compromise on the temperature so that one of us isn’t more miserable than the other. This has always worked for us whenever we’re socializing in one another’s houses. However, it doesn’t work well when we travel together, which is why we don’t travel together anymore. Early on in our friendship, we took a few trips and they were filled with so much tension and confrontation that it almost completely ruined our relationship. Despite having a great hotel room, we couldn’t agree on the temperature and we both found ourselves tired and miserable due to the uncomfortable thermostat settings. The only thing we could do was stay in separate rooms during our trips, but that seemed like a waste of money to both of us. There was nothing we could do to remedy the situation and we didn’t want to ruin our friendship, so we decided that we’d never take an overnight trip together ever again. I would say that this has saved our friendship.