Suzy Grant enjoys her life in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and her friends and the nightclub scene-it's the 90s, after all. But when she meets Paul Kane, she has no idea how much mayhem will ensue.
A successful manager at a medical supplies company, Suzy is casually looking for Mr. Right when she meets Paul at a fundraiser. Paul is funny, intelligent, erudite and a lot of fun, and they begin to spend much of their free time together. He takes Suzy to museums, the theatre, interesting movies, unusual fine restaurants, and horse races. He seems quite generous to her and his friends and family are wonderful people.
But Suzy's closest friends don't like Paul. Sarah, also neurotic, bucks heads with him almost immediately, and the two of them heartily despise each other. Karen, her dear, tall friend, also opinionated, refers to him as the Weasel, as she also is not enthralled with him, and asks if the Weasel was such a prize, why did he never marry? Suzy, however, is amused by their attitudes, as she finds him mostly charming, even though, oddly enough, they've never consummated their relationship.
When Paul's mother dies and leaves him her New York apartment, he asks Suzy to join him in the City. Flattered and always up for an adventure, she eagerly agrees, quitting her job and leasing out her condo for the winter, to see how things go between them-after all, they've dated for some time; now they'll be sharing an apartment.
Once in the Big Apple, Suzy discovers that the Paul she dated in Miami is far from the Paul she now lives with. His many eccentric restrictions exasperate her to no end. Canned fruit and coffee are verboten, and meals must be eaten in total silence to "enjoy and savor" the food, with sparse, quiet conversation in between bites. The sleeping arrangements are also a problem since their sleeping habits are totally opposite: she needs complete silence to sleep, while he blithely lies like a corpse with the radio on all night, catnapping. Noise, it seems, is a huge issue.
Suzy is looking for work to maintain her independence and silently holds in her resentment as she cannot manage a decent night's sleep and is fuzzyheaded each morning as she runs all over New York seeking a job, with no success at finding a good position. He, on the other hand, is clueless, and carries on listening to the AM stations every night. She finally sullenly tells him. . . His solution is for her to sleep on his couch.
Suzy interviews at many famous companies and finds their expectations of an employee even weirder than Paul! Paul also finds employment as a Judge for the Health Department, to keep himself busy as well. She notices that the cases he judges bring out a side of his personality she never saw before, to her amusement. Meanwhile, their clashes have intensified. She decides to spend time in a bar across the street until bedtime, to keep the peace. Here she meets various men, some perverts and some nice guys, as she whiles away the time. Paul also has decided to go out at night, and so they are basically living separate lives while sharing a roof. April 1 can't come soon enough. . .
