You're going across town through the sewers, just to avoid a few traffic lights.

No.  But you are reading things into my posts which I've never said.  In particular, I'm not sure where you got that notion from that I want to avoid symbolic references at any price...

What you elaborate on here is more or less the same I already said yesterday, in the second half of that reply.

Use whatever is appropriate in a certain context...  TIMTOWTDI.