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Originally Posted by BigV

slip and slide

Ah, yes - thank you!

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

We had an old school slip and slide. It came from the slip and slide folks, but there was no little bumper thingy on the end...you usually ended up sailing through yards of grass (both yard and yard meant here) once it had been used enough.

Ours too was the very basic version. It helped that our back garden had an incline. The main problem was that the garden was only slightly longer than the Slide Away! Dad used an old piece of carpet rolled up to help with the inevitable momentum induced injuries.

Our friends were SO jealous! But as with a number of childhood toys, when they were bought one it never actually lived up to their expectations. Firstly the incline and the abrupt end did make it more exciting and elicited more screams. Secondly there were three of us and our next door neighbour even before anyone came round, so there was always a queue and subsequent excitment. And thirdly (blowing my own trumpet) I always planned additional games and rules and special events around the basic thrill of just sliding down a piece of wet plastic.

Happy days.