We have a situation where our Many-Armed Band-Aid has 17 arms, and they're all tangled in a knot. We need to think of the worst that could happen if we try to fix it with our limited skills.
The stakes are high, the tension is palpable, and the risk of catastrophic failure is... well, let's just say we're taking it one step at a time.
If our Many-Armed Band-Aid gets any more tangled, it might just snap, and we'd have to resort to Plan B: The Band-Aid-in-a-Bucket-of-Rubber-Band-aid.
Or, worse still, we might have to resort to the dreaded Plan C: The Full-On-Dissection-Of-All-Arms-At-Once-And-Start-Over-From-Scratch.
But don't worry, we're not there yet. We're still just weighing worst-case scenarios, and we're taking our time.
After all, it's not like the fate of the world rests on our ability to untangle a 17-armed band-aid. Or does it?
We'll get back to you after some more careful consideration.