#250 Are we nearly there yet?
set by Howard Williams
“How much further?” asks my son Jack, from the back seat of the car. It’s a relief to have a variation, as all I’ve heard from him in the past hour is “are we nearly there yet?”. If I’m not to go crackers, I need to give him something to occupy his mind.
So in answer to his question, I say, “Jack, an hour and a half ago we were a three-digit number of miles from our destination, with the middle digit being a zero. Three-quarters of an hour…