Sitting on the porch with a bowl of papaya, I observe the water buffalo standing lazily in my neighbor's yard. Two are always tied together. And so they have to cooperate to get anywhere. Sometimes one will try to walk but the other one does not move and it becomes a stand still.
I remember playing a game like this with my sister using a jump rope.
Tied to each other and walking harmoniously until
as a joke
one sister stops in her tracks
jolting the other
and we both laugh.