The Rolling Pin Speedway

A smooth cylindrical cardboard shipping tube lay parked sideways across the open floorboards right at the entryway. Beep-beep! With a brisk click of my tongue, I charged full tilt and bounded straight onto its curved crest. The lightweight cylinder instantly took off, rolling smoothly beneath my long pumping legs like an impromptu conveyor belt across the glossy wood! Tilting my head with jaunty precision, I kept up a rapid trot to ride the momentum until it bumped softly into a woven doorstop. Right in the fringe rested a crunchy dropped pumpkin seed—snap, claimed before the tube even stopped shivering!