You can recreate this sensation in the real world by interacting with airlines. Well, at least from the POV of your backpack.
Silliness aside, I have the same problem and probably need to, yet again, beat my head against FORTH, preferably with an interpreter that somehow shows me the stack as it goes. Or maybe factor-lang instead on the grounds that it's higher level and also that I can escape to lexical variables when completely stuck.
It's like packing things into a backpack and then only at the end learn that we are going to Alaska instead of Hawaii.