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This Used To Be Our Playground
Posted: Oct 8th, '17, 01:23
by Moi
For years, something has really bugged me.
WHYYYYY do they build playgrounds out in the open where the sun hits?
I mean if it's near some trees, it's fine.
But out in the open?
Do you know what it feels like to slide down a scalding hot metal slide >Bu
And it's everything that gets hot. The metal and the plastic.
How are kids supposed to play on those when they're too hot to touch?
I just don't get it.
There's a park close to me and they have a playground under many trees and it's always shaded and there's one down the street that has a tarp over it.
However, at the same park, there's a different playground that is in direct sunlight and it's mostly metal.
It will sear the flesh from your hand >Bu
Opinions?
Do you go to playgrounds often?
Re: This Used To Be Our Playground
Posted: Oct 8th, '17, 02:21
by Kitalpha Hart
Not since I was in elementary school
But here, at least, metal ones are being phased out for plastic
Which means static shocks are the joints on hot and dry days
Re: This Used To Be Our Playground
Posted: Oct 8th, '17, 22:04
by Moi
>XD
I forgot about the static shock.
I get that from everything for some reason >xD
Re: This Used To Be Our Playground
Posted: Oct 10th, '17, 23:21
by Porcelain
Since I went to school in northwestern Oregon, most of our days were kinda overcasted, so the playground didn't get like that too often.
My friends and I still go to the playgrounds when we walk around at night sometimes.
Re: This Used To Be Our Playground
Posted: Oct 11th, '17, 21:39
by Moi
That's cool 8u
I'd love to visit Oregon some day.
I still go and use the swings xD
Re: This Used To Be Our Playground
Posted: Oct 11th, '17, 22:11
by Firefoxflare
Same on the OR
Most of our playgrounds are out in the open.
But alot of them are also plastic not metal anymore.
Re: This Used To Be Our Playground
Posted: Oct 12th, '17, 07:39
by Mikael Hart
There's gotta be a logic to why they set up playgrounds the way they do. I have no idea what logic that is, though. Maybe open spaces and metal is more clean? I mean, I've been around little kids, and they are noooot clean.
One fun thing I've done with metal slides is use water and wax paper to speed slide down the thing. One of my buddies used to live near a park with this huge slide, and that's what we did once (I think some neighborhood high schoolers came up with the idea). That was ages ago though; they don't have that slide anymore, unfortunately.