Where Do You Start the Situation?
The key characteristic of all opening Situation sentences is that they anchor you in a specific time and place, and thus establish the base for a story to come.
You begin writing the Situation by making a statement about the subject with which you know the reader will agree, because you are telling him something that he knows to be, or will accept as, true. If you find you don't want to begin by making a statement about the subject, then either you have the wrong subject, or you're starting in the wrong place to discuss it.
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