As my wife was leaving the house this morning she said to me, "I've got to roll." That was a curious thing to say in that I don't think that she was going to get down on the floor and roll head over heals or side over side. That would have been an interesting sight.
I understand what she meant, she was running late and had to get going on her way to work but it got the little wheels in my head rolling. The mental image that popped into my head was of her somersaulting her way through the house from the bedroom through the hall into the kitchen and out the door into the garage with her final destination being the car. How was she going to carry her stuff to the car when she was rolling? She has a lot of stuff to carry. I would have carried the stuff for her, but she is kind of territorial when it comes to her stuff for work.
Why would you want to roll when you have two perfectly good feet that will take you anywhere you want to go by just putting one foot in front of another? If you get stuck with an obstacle in you path, it is very hard to roll over it. Why not just step over it. You can if you are walking, but if you are rolling that is a different story. If you are rolling, you kind of just butt up against the obstacle and if the obstacle does not have an incline to roll up as in the case of a short wall, you are stuck Think about that for a minute.
What about when someone says "let's rock". That causes its own set of problems. A rock has no way to move itself. It depends on some outside source of motion in order to move. On its own, it is pretty much stuck where it is.
Even if you are talking about rocking as a verb, you are still looking at a very stable "stay in one place" action that is very dependent on outside force. To "rock" means to go back and forth. When you rock, you go forward and then backward, ending up in the same place most of the time. As an illustration I bring to you a boat. A boat rocks from side to side and back to front. I know this because I have been on a cruise. My experiences also include deep sea fishing and we all know what rocking does on when you go deep sea fishing. There is also a lot of heaving and hurling, but that is another story.
Now, just stop a moment and think about the things I just said. If they make any sense to you, you are worse off than I thought. At least, that's what my wife keeps saying to me.
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| It may rock, but it sure as heck ain't gonna roll. |
