But, leathery hands full of wet brown life, knee deep in the summer roadside grass, he just smiled and said they have places to go to too. “Birdfoot’s Grampa,” Joseph Bruchac What does the man mean when he says, “they have places to go to too”? He believes that all living things are important. The narrator has to go to school. He believes that the toads are in a hurry to get dry. The toads must go home with him and the narrator.