tough lil' kiddos
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My mom would give us sheets of waxed paper to ride down on, thus waxing the slide so we could go faster!
Clearly your mom is/was a fucking legend. That is such a cool story.
You should have seen the stuff she let my brothers get away with! A lot of which involved lighting gasoline fires. Looking back, she may have actually wanted them to kill each other.
We'd fill both front pockets with sand. Once at the top of the slide, we'd throw the sand down the slide, dusting it up real nice, to make us go faster!
Of course, a fussing from Mom was always the direct result - back of my pants would be black when I'd get home.
Sounds like the wax paper would have been a lot cleaner!!
And waxed paper was a luxury, so we had to use it judiciously i.e. sneak a piece when mom wasn't looking.
Been there, done that!
I remember playing outside all day and going home because you couldn't see in the darkness of night.
I want to go down that slide.
For... Um. To evaluate it's safety for my son.
A kid named Jimmy would stop half way down and back everybody up.
I did that once in first grade and got yelled at by the teacher and sent inside.
Hahahaha!
Ah metal slides.... turning young boys into young men as you get third degree burns from sliding down during the summer in shorts.
Our 3 story small town school had these as the fire escape. Everyone loved fire drills!
My elementary school had a two storey tall jungle gym. Climb up to the top and if you fell down, you would die. And several kids were on that thing just having a grand old time. The teachers didn't seem to mind, either. Heck, I remember having a straight slide that was taller than the one pictured in this article. This nanny state we are living in is designed to make sissys out of men. Let the kids throw other kids down, it will only make them stronger. Goodness. Heck, in the bathrooms the urinals were as tall as your head, floor to chest height. We'd begin pissing and then back up to see who could shoot the farthest. Was a great time until the teacher came and and yelled "What's taking you so long!" Talk about a stream of piss being cut off in mid flight. The janitors sure had a mess to clean up. Be we were kids and that's what kids do. Push the limits until an adult said differently.
That things cool! Bring ‘em back.
I grew up in the 50's and all the playgrounds in school were asphalt, you didn't dare fall off!