a story can somebody tell me about verbals tenses in this paragraph, please? than you. A STORY We had been driving for four hours when we saw the sign for a small hotel and decided to stop. the purpose and direction of the trip had been keenly discussed a month ago, in fact, two hours before stopping we had been singing enthusiastically. At that time, nothing made us suspect that everything was going to change dramatically. Unfortunately, at one point on the journey, I made a mistake, I took the wrong road. It was the beginning of a bitterly argue that last until we arrived at the hotel.