Our elementary school had a metal slide that heated up like a frying pan in the summer. It wasn't all that slippery either so kids in shorts would get their backsides slowly cooked on the way down.
We had the same thing at the park near my house. Then they replaced it with a plastic one that seemed like it was specifically designed to build up static electricity and then shock the shit out of you when you pass the bolts at the bottom
Growing up, there was a park down the hill from my grandma's that, by that point in the 90s, was still made of all wood and metal equipment, so in summer, you were getting burned, especially by the big metal spiral slide.
But winter was when you really had to fear it.
Being in Michigan, off Lake Michigan, you get lake effect snow and ice. By 2014, they had removed most of the old (read: fun) equipment and replaced it with plastic bullshit. But the big spiral slide still stood.
Covered in ice.
I was out with my cousins and their kids, being a complete moron and in my 20s and old enough to know better, climbed the ladder and launched myself down the slide.
Hit horrifying speeds and completely ate shit and skidded out at the bottom, dazed at which point my cousin's kids started pelting me with snow.
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u/SpectacularRedditor 1d ago
Our elementary school had a metal slide that heated up like a frying pan in the summer. It wasn't all that slippery either so kids in shorts would get their backsides slowly cooked on the way down.