It's probably from years of trying to keep a good grope on the situation.

Just fancy how facilitative these hands are for fondling fully-flowered, flighty, feisty, flirtatious, flamboyant Flamingos, Fred!

Apparently even Alice had a problem or two. See?

... The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the ...

Bursting out laughing at inopportune moments has been quite the problem for me too, I must admit ...

But I think I'm going to return these new toys forthwith. I didn't even have a chance to try them out before my Flamingos woke up, flipped out and flocked off.

Fooey.    :-(