Francine: "Bob, you're two and a half hours late! What took you so long?!"
Bob: "I took the scenic route."
Francine: "Oh, okay. That excuse makes perfect sense and I have no questions pertaining to the circumstances of your lateness beyond that."

We were supposed to turn on 13th Street to get to the Capitol, but I guess we can take the scenic route...through Virginia.

"I tried to get out of work before those idiots downstairs in accounting so I wouldn't have to take the scenic route in the elevator ride down"

I was late to class because I took the scenic route.

"Man, that show last night was so boring, I took the scenic route all the way to the front just to tell the lead singer how much they sucked."

My boyfriend wanted to take the scenic route last night