Lolly Ellender had a real talent for being taken advantage of, but if you think of her as a door mat, it's all wrong-- too flattened and inert. Instead, she was more like foam rubber, with a cheery, bouncy consistency, so that often people who walked on her found themselves springing up and down, up and down, until they were either dizzy or cold sober and rather tired, ready to surrender to her buoyant goodness.

--from A Growing Wonder (1957)