out of your control. that’s exactly what you want it to do.
write a scene in which your two characters, the child and the grown-up, get in a car. describe the car in one sentence. then say how they set off with the something on the back seat. have them talk about where they are going. who are they going to meet? what are they going to do with the something?
then have the car break down. this is the first thing going wrong.
the child and the grown-up disagree about what to do next. they are only a short distance from where they were heading. do they walk or don’t they?
have the 