Too late

[franceslievens]

Trois-Rivières: last stop before we head back to Montréal, back home (three more nights – enjoy them while you can). Your travelling companion, chauffeur and sometimes cook since you set foot on Canadian bottom suddenly blurts out he better buy, write and send postcards. "But they'll be too late," you retort, "we'll be home before they get there..."
He smiles at you: "Well, that's the whole point, isn't it?"