Damn judgemental people.

Timeshare dog?

This could be a monetized service. There should be an app for this!

I swear it should be banned. The number of times I've slammed on the brakes because I thought something was coming.

Me too, Sweetie. Me. Too.

I've actually done that a couple times. The looks on their faces made me giggle a little. 😄

Playgrounds I played on daily as a kid would be considered child abuse today.

I unthinkingly went down a slide on a hot Southern California summer day once. It hurt immediately, but I was also wearing shorts that rode up, so my thighs stuck and I didn’t slide all the way down. Then I burned my hands trying to push my way down the last few feet. The good old days!

Metal slides were bad. I remember getting scorched that first time I slid down one that was hot as f**k. That’s when you learn to test the slide part first with your hand. Talking about hazardous playground equipment of the past, anyone remember how easy it was to fall off the monkey bars? Especially since, back in the day, they just set it all up over the concrete and/or hard dirt on the playground. No soft landings there.

But we mostly tried to run up the slide but slipped and burned our faces and hands and knees when our faces slammed into the hot metal.

could fry an egg on that bad boy

But first we waxed them so we could slide really really fast. This way we were still very rare when we landed!

You know those really high ones where you almost get vertigo, but you sit down anyway, only to realize how hot the things is when you reached the first bump and then you can't decide whether you should try and go back or try and stand the heat, but either way, your back is already burned and your feet and palms start smoking.

I loved those slides so much, I don't know how I didn't die. EDIT: my Kookom had one of those in her backyard my mum and auntie would go on.

Cooking your "buns" 😁😁😁

...and loved it. we'd *line up* to do it..

We saved up the wax paper liners from cereal boxes to slide on. We could break the sound barrier on a hot day.

And we didn't whine and complain.

Try going to a school which required girls to wear dresses.

I remember wooded slides 😱

Also we climbed to the top of that ladder, chickened out and climbed back down if we were lucky enough to have a clear escape route.

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Then there were those plastic twisting helter-skelters with raised seams and bolts on the inside to give the fun a whole new dimension of pain!

Yep, but as kids we still did it again every summer

my girlfriend cut off her little finger on one of those metal slides and kept sliding over and over

Back when I was in Kindergarten- this tall slide was part of our playground… a CEMENT playground. Then one kid came down too fast after using wax paper on it to make slippery and cracked his head a good one… good times.

😆🤣😩

And we have the scars to prove it!

Yes we did! 😆! Nobody twisted your arm to do it either! Lol!

Haha my boyfriend and I like to abuse children's play equipment, it's quite fun actually😊🤣😆

Used to bring wax paper in to school and rub it on the slide to make it extra fast.

The only way to deal with the devil's runway was to bring a towel with me.

Oh so well said! HAHAHA!

Can still feel the burn.

Childhood memories. Burned my hand on slide, my hair stuck in swing's chain, push swing and get hit when it comes back ,damaged sensitive area on seesaw. All beautiful and happy memories.

Always wondered what one of those would look like from an airplane. Had to be blinding.

We always got a fat kid to go first to absorb most of the heat.

We bunny hopped up the slide then rode the bikes up to the top then bunny hopped off

Has anyone ever gotten stuck in the swirly chair? Don't know how else to describe it.