"Now let's see if we can get you standing..." Sam muses. "OK, right hand flat on the ground. Now push..."
By a series of commands like this, you and Pam somehow make it to your feet. Amazing how far away the floor looks now. And you feel yourself a bit out of balance. Quickly you correct...and so does Pam! Now you are unbalanced in the other direction and desperately correcting, with Pam doing the over-correcting again! Again you are about to fall, but just as you start to correct, you recall the last two times, and decide to just relax and let Pam do the correcting... And Pam lets you do it!
Well, at least you landed on your rump... You glare at Pam [which is rather hard to do since she is inside you. For a second you consider finding a mirror to glare at.] Then you start accusing each other of tripping. Sam is of no help since he is busy giggling at the two of you. "OK, let's try again. Now this time, don't be quite so quick..."
It takes a long series of frustrating tries. At least it seems long to you and Pam. Sam isn't so bothered. Of course, he is not the one falling down all the time [which is all Pam's fault of course]. But he does have a point. "Look, it takes a baby months to learn how to stand. You two will be doing it in less than a day. You are doing great." It doesn't feel so great from your view.
But finally, you are standing up and in no danger of falling. You and Pam have managed to agree on just how much to correct and by which one of you. It feels great to be able to do what you just recently took for granted.
"Very good." Sam enthuses. "Now let's take a step." You do so...and so does Pam...
You are not sure whether it would have been better or worse if you two had agreed on which foot to step with... Of course when you try to step with both feet at once, you end up in a heap, but at least it is something of a short fall. Now that you think of it, taking a big long step, the likely result if both of you had chosen the same foot, would have resulted in a much bigger sprawl and you would have had much more chance of hurting yourself. But in that case, Sam would at least be all concerned instead of laughing at you.
"Well, let's do it again, and take a little more time to get it right..." Again you try getting to your feet, but your co-operation with Pam has been damaged, and it takes several attempts to actually manage it. "Let's have you sit in that chair... No, wait!" But Sam's caution comes too late. It is such an automatic task to take a few steps and sit down... or rather it was an automatic task... It of course is still Pam's fault that you go sprawling, even if it is harder to point to her error this time.
As you work your way to your feet again [making it in record time, even if it seems slow, and still has some false starts], Sam moves the chair behind you and then you lower your seat into the seat. [More precisely, you fall into the chair, but at least you do not upset it.] So now it is a series of getting up out of a chair, and getting down into it again. [With mixed results. Just after you do it perfectly on the 5th? 50th? try, you sit back down hard and you and chair crash to the floor.]
But finally you are standing and sitting with reasonable skill.
"OK, time for a reward." Sam announces as he picks you up and carries you to the bed.
Feeling a swollen part of his anatomy, you question "And just who is getting rewarded?"
"Does it matter?" Sam dodges. "You are going to enjoy it too."