Chute 'Em!

At the playground - a big, long chute slide!!!

When I was a kid (back in the stone age) we had swings with wooden slat seats.  There would be contests who could swing highest and jump off and go the farthest.  If you got scraped up, you'd run home, let your mommy clean you up and you'd be back on the playground...unsupervised...in a jiffy.

There was a merry-go-round that everyone ran and pushed really hard around the circle.  You made it go super fast then jumped on.  You stayed on it spinning until it stopped or until you wanted to throw up.

And there was a steel slide.  It got so hot in the sun you would burn your legs.  But we didn't care.  To make it more slippery, we would walk up it backwards and rub it down with a sheet of wax paper.

Every dad in the neighborhood had a different whistle (with his mouth and fingers). When we heard our dad's whistle, it was time to come home for dinner.

We spent a lot of time at the playground without a fancy high tech plastic chute slide and our parents hovering over us.

I wonder who had/has more fun?

The chute does look cool, though!