• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    My thighs were invincible from riding the 20ft tall, 73° angle “slide” that was heated by the heat of a thousand suns through a hole in the ozone layer.

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      7 days ago

      Kids today. 🙄 Our elementary school playground was fabricated by Medieval iron mongers. And when you fell off, the gravel was the rough stuff, like $50 for a dump truck full.

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        And the rough gravel was at the bottom of the puddle of stagnant rainwater that had been there long enough to spawn new life.

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      7 days ago

      Somewhere there’s a slide with accumulations like a cast iron skillet, one that has tasted you and your friends. 😐