Kicking out

Arriving at the M25 from the west around 6pm weekdays you can expect gridlock. The caterers having finally kicked us out of the wake at 5pm, we expected a grim schlepp home. So we took a cross-country route, cutting the corner to avoid the regular M25 trouble spots. Mistake! Traffic trouble ahead. My navigator suddenly said “Turn left at the next roundabout and cut through past the McB’s house....”

“Drive past?” I asked. “Let’s call in!”

We did... and the planned half-hour visit expanded greatly. We arrived home very late, having been kicked out twice in a day.