Thatababy by Paul Trap for May 22, 2011
May 21, 2011
May 23, 2011
Transcript:
Dad: I feel bad for you, your ilk and your plastic play structures. Dad: Our playgrounds were made out of cold, hard steel! It wasn't officially summer 'til someone broke their arm on the monkey bars! Dad: And each year the fifth graders used the merry-go-round to teach the first graders all about centrifugal force!! Dad: And the slide wasn't enclosed in a safety tube! Your coordination alone, kept you from flying off into space! Dad: The brave would run up the slide and the bold would scale the underbelly!! Dad: And those slides would get red hot baking in the sun! Dad: You can have your crummy internet! I want a metal slide!!
griefofdawn over 13 years ago
and the slides were a mile high, and you couldn’t get on one til you were in third grade….
Yukoneric over 13 years ago
Hey, we survived. AND I have the scars to prove it………………..
millibob over 13 years ago
Those were the good ol’ days of playing in the park or school yard.
lightenup Premium Member over 13 years ago
And there were seesaws where someone (yes, me included) always got their jaw whacked when the other side sat down too quickly. There aren’t many seesaws or merry-go-rounds any more.
tsandl over 13 years ago
A metal slide and a roll of waxed paper. Sigh… Those were the days.
Jaedabee Premium Member over 13 years ago
Someone pushed me off of one of those slides back in elementary school. I blacked out momentarily. Good times.
cbrsarah over 13 years ago
The park near me during my childhood had a sandbox, swings, slides, seesaws, monkey bars, and, during the summer, an enclosed space where you could get wet from shower heads and splash in the water that pooled in the middle. Another park I visited had the same thing but the water was deeper and you could pretend to swim. None of them had merry-go-rounds though.
potsdam over 13 years ago
ow about the big tubes that you walked in that rotated around if you got enough momentum going. . .
kfaatz925 over 13 years ago
Waxed paper gambit?? Sounds like I missed out!
cheetahqueen over 13 years ago
@ kfaatz925 and pinkdryad:
The wax paper used on a metal slide was similar to waxing your surfboard or skiis…less friction, more speed…in theory, anyway.
cmusicfan2000 over 11 years ago
There are too many crazy people that think merry go rounds are too dangerous for kids…I loved those things growing up and now they are being removed from playgrounds all over the place because some overprotective parent worries that their kid will get hurt :( When did a kid getting a scratch on his knee become a bad thing?