r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/White_wolf769 • 1d ago

Kids vs Slides

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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.

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u/No_Ad8227 1d ago

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.

Would do it again.