– So you see, it's not the easiest thing to do: just to stop a stranger in the street and ask them "Where am I?"
– It's a simple enough question.
– But is it? It immediately conjures up alarming connotations. Am I suffering from a sudden bout of amnesia and have no idea how I appeared here? Perhaps I have managed to escape from agents of a foreign power who held me captive in an unknown location? Or even beamed back down to Earth following an alien abduction? None of these explanations are particularly reassuring.
– Or you could just tell them what actually happened?
– You mean that I was idly walking along the river, along a path that I had followed many times before, expecting it to lead me out near where I had started, only to find myself suddenly in the middle of a housing estate which had mysteriously appeared out of nowhere?
– You know, if you go easy on the details, perhaps you might be able to pull off the alien abduction.
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