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[RandySF]

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[ProudLib72]

1. I don't see the big deal. That still looks like fun to me

So does jumping out of the swing at the highest point to see just how far you can fly (I knew a kid who broke his arm doing this). Why do you think that GenX is the smallest generation?

[RandySF]

2. Remember the slides that burned your ass on a hot summer day?

[ProudLib72]

4. We used to go under the slides, hang onto the support bars on either side of the slide,

and walk up the bottom of the slide to do a flip. We also used to try and run up the slide. Sometimes we'd make it; other times we'd fall off. I do remember whacking myself hard a few times on the jungle gym, but I always considered it to be the normal cost of "play time".

[dewsgirl]

5. Broke my arm when I was 5 walking up a slide at school in 1982.

[ProudLib72]

6. But did it stop you from doing dangerous stuff on the playground?

I bet it didn't.

We had a huge swing set in the shape of a half sphere. There were five or six swings positioned around the circumference so that everyone was swinging into the inside of the sphere. The top of the sphere was probably only 12 or 14 feet tall, but it seemed like 30 feet back then. I remember some toy got stuck up in a tree beside that swing set and this crazy little kid ran up on top of the sphere with a broom to get the toy down. The recess "guardian" was worried about it, but she let him climb up there anyway.

As a kid in CO, winter was the time for jumping into snow drifts. I used to go out and literally jump off a cliff into the snow for hours on end. I even jumped off the balcony of a house that was being built down the road. My parents never said a word about it, and there were always plenty of other kids doing the same thing.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. Remember the wax paper we used to make them slick?

I grew up in the 50's. Every school yard and park in town had tall slides, tall monkey bars. and the twirl around things where you ran as fast as you could yo get the thing going and then you jumped on for a ride. And really tall swings.

Somebody was always breaking something.

[Iliyah]

3. Oh my gosh, LOL

Born in 1983. This is funny . . .

[fierywoman]

7. I loved playing on these!

[world wide wally]

8. I broke my arm playing on (well, falling off of) a swing.

[marked50]

9. Fell off one of these when I was 8.

Landed on my head. Haven't been the same since but I don't remember what I was like before anyway.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. That happened to my brother when he was 6.

Stupid thing was set on concrete. He fell from the very top.

He was a nerd the rest of his life. I'm sure that was why.

[marked50]

12. Explains me--- it was set in concrete too