I wasn't asking . . .

. . . for your permission to stop in for a drink at our daughter's workplace, nor for your feedback on whether you thought it was a good idea. I was asking only if you needed me to come straight home. For you to answer in the affirmative when what you really meant was that you didn't want me to stop or that you didn't think it was a good idea was disingenuous and controlling. Even if it turns out that she is glad I didn't drop in, which I will grant you is a real possibility and which I would have been willing to consider in the first place had you raised it, I'm angry at you about this incident.