It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked. - Douglas Adams

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

"I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams.

...my methods of navigation have their advantage. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.