today

[sapphyres]

I cut up a giant box and we made "sleds" to go down a concrete slide. Ghetto or recycling chic? This caused us to make friends with non-helicopter parents so I don't even care. Cute freckled mom gave us her phone number because we're just that cool. Even dads think so. I brought crayons to decorate, and one dad said, "because that makes them go

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Hi, I'm an annoying reminder!

[pinkminx]

I want pictures! Care and remember?

[sapphyres]

Mobile is all hard and, junk, but I managed it without my glasses or coffee.

[gnomenapper]

You. Rock.
Well, until someone gets hurt- but that is bound to happen anywhere really.

[sapphyres]

The beasties hurt themselves landing wrong on a 2 foot, new all safety approved playground. That concrete slide, at a different park, gave me conniptions when I first saw it two years ago, but I've never seen child injured on it, young ones or oldwr ones horsing around.

The cardboard doesn't make them faster. Actually, the friction probably slotted them a tiny bit. It just gives the adventure a different flavor.

[gnomenapper]

Ha, you're talking to the girl who rode empty boxes down her staircase when she moved in. I love it <3

[piknik]

awesome! I think I would be one of the helicopter parents you speak of, but I'd really want to talk to you so I could be cool like you. :)

[sapphyres]

The helicopter parents' kids come to the slide of doom despite their parents' trepidation, so I commiserate with the worry and let them know that I've seen a child injured on the slides.