Or swinging on the school swings...getting WAY up there and launching. If I even sat on a swing now I would somehow hurt myself

Heck yeah! That was the best part. BTW, I just hit 10,000 points! Do I get a plaque or something? Does it say "congratulations for spending so much time on Bored Panda while you should have been working?" :)

And hot metal slides! That Dad waxed so we could go faster!

Yes! Ours actually tipped over! Luckily, nobody was hurt!

I still remember seeing a girl swing over the top pole in kindergarten.

My grandma has one of those. My job, as the oldest and the largest out of my brothers and I, was to hold it down. Like hang from the bar at the top and just hang there.

And all the wasps come out.....

Sure do!

That's if your parents didn't anchor them, and most of them didn't LOL

How about COMPLETELY out, and the set tipping over?

Wasn't that the point? That's when you knew when to jump!

That was me

I scrolled past the heading of this, not seeing it, and looked at thr picture and the lower words.I tried to find a pole that was off the ground and couldn't, so I thought ?Are these girls Polish?'", naw, thatt can't be the joke. so..Is it some card from a family with the last name Pole? Still didn't get it...duh!

I thought that was the name of the game?? Either flip the swingset or go over the top bar!!!

I do!

Me

That was half the fun.

For some "enthusiastic" kids, the goal was to tip the whole thing over.

Yep. My dad cemented the frame to the ground so it wouldn’t happen. Whatever he did, it worked great.

yeah it’s a wonder we lived so long.

Here

Unless you were lucky enough to have a dad like mine who cemented the poles into the ground!!!! 😁😁😁

Sure do, along with bicycles with no saddles, and homemade go karts with no brakes. How did our baby boomer generation ever survive to be adults?

It was terrifying!

Heck yes lol

"Overs" when you was a little older and learnt how to navigate the pull and weight so you could do a 360 without injury or the poles fully coming out of the ground! Good times 🤗

Yesss!

Me!! Then getting yelled at to show down lol

Of course we did. Good times!

I used to swing super high while singing as lowd as i could. My neighbours must have hated me 😆

Yesss! We always tried to see who could make the poles lift up the highest!

1988!

YEP! Making it ‘bump’!

and bailing out!!! It's a wonder we didn't break more bones.

Omg yes! Never said anything either, lest it get fixed...

And then trying to time the jump just right; if you didn't you ended up landing on your face.

Yep

I am this old.

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They were supposed to be anchored to the ground... so, no, this never happened to me. Terrifying.