No, fingers, not a questino. I don't even know what that is.
So, I'm "revenge-writing" at the moment, basically just trying to work my way through all the stuff my dad did so I can close off that part of my life now. Right now I'm pretty much just thinking of everything that made an impact, good, bad, or middling, and there's one thing that keeps popping up. It drove me nuts as a kid, and I want to include it for that reason (so I will for the purposes of catharsis and everything), but I'm wondering if (if/when I publish) it will make sense to anyone else.
Any time we went anywhere as a family, my dad always drove. It was a non-negotiable. The only time I ever saw my mom drive my dad anywhere was after he got "sick" at the beach (almost certainly a combo of too much beer and too much sun), she drove us all home. Most of our trips were "scheduled" (for lack of a better word) - church, hockey lessons, visiting the old bat grandmother, groceries etc. but every so often he would want us all to just "go for a drive". I may be weird but I like to know where I'm going before I get in the car (and preferably before I put my shoes on, but that's a whole other story).
Every time I asked "where are we going?", he would reply "there and back again, to see how far it is". It drove me NUTS. Most of the time it was actually down the street to get some bread, or cigarettes for my mom, or whatever. Once in a while it was out to the plantations, or our cousins' places at one of the other beaches. Once he even drove us all out to some godforsaken conference center, 2+ hours from home, so he could go to a "meeting" (read timeshare pitch), and there was nowhere for us to wait, so we spent 2 hours waiting in the car, and then another 2+ hours home again. If he'd told any of us what the plan was, none of us would have gone.
Anyway, so TL;DR did/do any of your relatives/friends/acquaintances ever say "there and back again, to see how far it is"?