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Go out of your way for these English direction phrases.

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Hey, Lindsay, how are you? I'm feeling great today, Michelle. How's everything going for you?

How are you? Everything. Yeah, everything's good. Lindsay, are there any coffee places that you can go to on the way to the airport closest to you? I know we've been talking about airports recently. On the way to the airport closest to me, typically when I go to the airport, I'll just grab a coffee at the airport, you know, even though it's not the best. But, you know, there are coffee shops on the way of the park, which I love to stop at, you know. Okay. Yeah. You can walk to? Yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah, there's a number of them. There was a really cute one that just closed that was in the park, in the park, but it just closed, unfortunately. But what about you, Michelle? You have a lot of things on your way to other things, a lot of coffee shots in the way. But I just, that's one thing about like, you know, being in the suburbs now is, you know, you really have to think about where everything. I mean, actually, this is really anywhere and not just in the suburb. You know, sometimes I'll think, oh, I want a coffee on the way to something else. And then I realize, wait, there's not a, there's not a good one around here. And there must be a Starbucks somewhere. There must be, you know, you know that it's somewhere. You just don't know where. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But today we're going to be talking about an interesting expression and how the opposite of

this expression doesn't work out.

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