How Do You Define Insanity?

It's about 7 pm and Carol is sound asleep in our bed. Now that you all know we are safe, I can tell you about our day without having you jump ahead to see whether we made it out of our time warp alive.
I can now fully understand a scifi story I read many years ago. In it, a self driving car was being programmed to drive around a race course as fast as possible. It did a couple of laps to set its' program. Towards the end of the second lap it skidded and hit the wall but kept going. In its' wisdom it decided that a skid and bump should be part of its' routine and as it speeded up it kept hitting the wall the same way each lap, faster and faster until it destroyed itself.
We didn't hit anything but we had the same sort of failure of logic today as our TomTom tried to guide us to Chipping Campden, which is not too much farther in the same direction we went yesterday. We don't understand why but it decided to send us along the motorway to London first. Motorways in Britain have the same overpasses as we do but they also have roundabouts mixed in, sometimes separately but disturbingly often, as part of a combination overpass/roundabout/exit, with traffic lights. So imagine an instruction like this: "stay right. In two hundred yards turn right, take the fourth exit and veer left." At every major interchange a typical motorway will have three to four lanes approaching exits, overpasses and roundabouts with up to five exits of their own and everyone is going 80 miles per hour. Oh, I forgot to add traffic lights into the mix. So we obviously can't count to 5 fast enough you say. You try it. Anyway, we made the same mistake over and over again and TomTom kept sending us back on the same stretch of motorway over and over again until we really felt we were in a weird kind of time warp. Eventually we managed to get off the motorway and find a place to stop to regroup. At that point we felt the best way to stay off the motorway was to tell TomTom to take us home which it did with flying colours and it chose the most beautiful scenic roads to do it on. Go figure. As we got close to home, we reprogrammed it to take us to Bath which it did and along the way we stopped at this lovely Inn for fish and chips. They had a two for one day! /we each got an entire cod fish, not a fillet but the entire goddamn fish and home made chips and mushy peas. It was incredibly delicious but we won't need to eat now for a week. In Bath we just walked around a bit and got our train tickets back to Heathrow for Sunday and then came home just as the rain started. Tomorrow we might try Chipping Campden again but we will fool TomTom by asking it to send us to Tetbury first and when we get there, quickly reprogram it to carry on to CC. Wish us luck! Insanity? That's when you do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome each time. TTFN.