+435 Those old rickety swings, the hot metallic slides, the old firepoles that taught us about gravity and sprained ankles, and the merry-go-round that made us all sick to our stomachs totally kick ass compared to the safety, skooshy, rubbery, anti-bacterial, sanitized playgrounds of today, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I miss the slides especially.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes! They took out the merry-go-round when I was in 2nd grade and put in this retarded thing on a pole...which was supposed to be 'fun'.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I fell off the monkey bars once and sprained my wrist. My elementary school got rid of them after that and everyone was angry at me. And then the next year they replaced the sand around our jungle gym with wood chips. I have no idea how this was supposed to be safer.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

why? because everything was better the way you had it? being safe is tottaly lame, right?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Being safe is fine, but they can't grow up thinking that if they fall down they're always going to come up unscratched. Kids need to learn that they can get hurt, they can't always get their way, and that mommy can't stop all the bad things from happening.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the park doesnt have to be the place to teach them that, life is pretty good at that too. i never liked burning the crap out of myself on the stupid equipment, but then again it probably gets gotter where I live than where you live

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And this is why many kids these days are such wusses. They never had to deal with landing on hard gravel or dealing with almost getting sick in the merry-go-round. They just fall off onto a squishy little mat.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I completely agree, kids these days need to toughen up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Fucking idiots. You want kids breaking their fucking necks?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

RIght, because without all those squishy mats to break their falls, all kids broke their necks at some point or another growing up, right? No lameo mats must equal broken necks, right? I mean, just look at kids these days, those mats are obviously going to make them better down the road, right? They're not making them soft or lazy or total pansies or anything, right? In case you couldn't tell, I'm being sarcastic. Get your head out of your ass. Kids need to skin their knees when they fall off their bikes and get a mouthful of wood chips when they go down the slide back-wards. They need to learn these things because otherwise, how will they learn anything at all? If they don't learn the basic play-ground rules when they need to, how will they learn anything else later on in life? Getting hurt ain't fun, but it's something that's necessary for the human nature so we can learn and grow. Maybe you need to go back to the playground...

by Anonymous 13 years ago