Anyway, with or without sharing the room with a garage, I got the garage, so it was all good.
I was swimming out of the Jeddah Gulch at one time into the Red Sea and came across a fisherman in a dory wearing a loin cloth sort of piece and asked him in my very best Arabic - which amounts to no more than " do you come here often" - and for my linguistic efforts of pleasantry received a clout from his paddle, because as it transpired later when talking to those who can actually speak Arabic, I had asked him something else altogether different from my quite harmless intentions along the lines of: Are you available?".