I was crawling around the floor with my two-year-old on my back giving her a horsey-back ride when she said, "No Dad, piggy back ride."
Where on earth did that term come from? Has anyone ever seen a pig giving a ride to anything?
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Friday November 23, 2007
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Coming from "pick pack" reminds me a little of the admonition in Exodus that an emer is the fourth part of an ophah.
OK, My Nana and Papa gave horsey rides and my Nanney and Pawpaw gave piggy back rides. It was not necessarily a genetic difference, nor cultural - although Nana and Papa were from Texas and Nanney was from Oklahoma. Actually, that might be the solution to the problem. Texans gave horsey rides.
Then of course there is the possibility that great grandparents raised different animals on their farms.
But, if and when I am a grandmother - I will be giving horsey rides - there's no doubt about it. It's a matter of preference.
Lord - bless David today as he offers piggy-back rides to his mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law. Ans as the indigestion from yesterday's turkey bowl crawls up the back of his throat, centimetre by burning centimetre, open the eyes of his heart to the clear teaching of your word which doth commandeth us to verily be vegetarians.
Shelah.
OK, I now have the definitive answer - from my husband.
Piggy back rides are standing up - not on all fours.
Horsey rides are down on the floor and are often the cause of back injuries among older parents.
Along the same line of questioning...Why do we call the girl's hair style pig tails vs. a pony tail?
If a pony tail is all the hair gathered into one piece, and pig tails are the hair split into two and gathered- Why do we call it that?
Pigs don't have two tails!
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