A prudent no-financial-cost-to-you "hoofin' it" journey that you take to a certain location prior to driving there in your fuel-sucking auto-bubble, to actually "see for yourself" if whatever conditions/circumstances that someone of questionable integrity told you about really are the case, or if you'd just be going on a wild goose chase and merely consuming your costly gas for nothing.
I always perform a pre-road-trip walk (or I'll bike or hitch-hike or otherwise find a way to travel there "for free") to a stated destination whenever one of da local riff-raff requests me to drive there --- too many times in da past I've merely wasted an hour and used several gallons of expensive gasoline, only to discover that the shallow-minded idiot who'd asked me to "go and help" wasn't even "for real", and so either (1) there was nobody and/or nothing whatsoever at the place I'd been requested to drive to, or (2) someone else entirely --- and who usually was someone whom I had expressly said I would never assist anymore due to his outrageously-inapprorpate treatment of me in the past --- was there to request my help instead of the "promised" more-desirable person or persons, or (3) whoever was there knew nothing about whatever matter that I'd been sent there to act on, and sometimes I even got in trouble for "trespassing" or otherwise "disturbing the peace".
by QuacksO February 1, 2019