Translations:Choosing the Right Venue/14/en

Practical awareness also has a place. Knowing where exits are, whether phone reception is reliable, whether transport is available at the intended hour, and whether anyone else knows the general plan are ordinary considerations rather than expressions of distrust. Where a private venue is involved, questions of who else may be present, and whether the space is shared with others, are reasonable to raise in advance.

| Reality=Reality Check: the most common source of difficulty is not a dangerous venue but a mismatched one. Two people arrive with different assumptions about what the setting implies — one expecting a conversation, the other expecting something more — and the discomfort that follows is usually attributed to the other person rather than to the unspoken assumption.