Summer is winding down already, for all that we got of it. There was maybe one good two-week run of real summer weather, with a few random warm days tossed in
I think this was the one and only time we dragged out the slip-n-slide. If you believe the warnings printed on the box, using a slip-n-slide is about as dangerous as carrying a bag of pit vipers up the side of Mount Everest while smoking an unfiltered cigarette.
There are stern admonitions to carefully check the area for rocks and debris before setting out the slide. There are various height, weight, and age restrictions for using the slide. There are the usual precautions about parental supervision and death or serious injury if the device is used in any way other than exactly as specified. All of the consumer-safety type groups and pediatric-society type groups frown on these things big time.
Because it's fun. Good, cheap fun. I'm sure those groups are working on getting all slip-n-slides banned or recalled, or at least a law passed that you have to wear a helmet and full body padding to use one. Just pretend you don't see that big rock holding down the top corner of the slide.
All the children survived unharmed, despite all of the slipping and sliding and unheeded warnings.
Summer is winding down already, for all that we got of it. There was maybe one good two-week run of real summer weather, with a few random warm days tossed in
I think this was the one and only time we dragged out the slip-n-slide. If you believe the warnings printed on the box, using a slip-n-slide is about as dangerous as carrying a bag of pit vipers up the side of Mount Everest while smoking an unfiltered cigarette.
There are stern admonitions to carefully check the area for rocks and debris before setting out the slide. There are various height, weight, and age restrictions for using the slide. There are the usual precautions about parental supervision and death or serious injury if the device is used in any way other than exactly as specified. All of the consumer-safety type groups and pediatric-society type groups frown on these things big time.
Because it's fun. Good, cheap fun. I'm sure those groups are working on getting all slip-n-slides banned or recalled, or at least a law passed that you have to wear a helmet and full body padding to use one. Just pretend you don't see that big rock holding down the top corner of the slide.
All the children survived unharmed, despite all of the slipping and sliding and unheeded warnings.
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