Pretending....

I'm with charlie and his girlfriend.

We are driving in the car back from devon to somerset.

The satnav takes us off road, and into fields. He and his girlfriend
think this is fine, because they are used to it, but I feel a bit
worried that we will get stuck in a field.
We drive up these steep grassy slopes which have a lot of water on the
surface, and the car seems fine.

I begin to see fine views of the land all around, and the slope keeps
getting steeper and steeper.

We get to the edge of a cliff, and we are in danger of the car
slipping over the edge of the cliff, because the grassy slope meets
the edge, and we have to navigate around the contour of the big hill,
with steep slopes on the upper side and a cliff on the lower side.

We get stuck on this big hill. I say to charlie,

"We could just pretend..." thinking to myself that we were pretending
anyway, and it would be easy to pick this car up, like a child picks
up a toy car, and move it from the hill back to the road.."That we
were back on the road".

Charlie responds, "for me it all has to be real. Pretending isn't as fun."

So we stay on the hill and somehow, navigate our way through the stuck
situation and find ourselves back on the flat ground on the other side
of the hill.