I miss slip 'n slide

I loved that shit from the 70's and 80's. I grew up during a time when you had metal roller skates that you put on the bottom of your sneaks. They were sharp and could cut an ankle quicker that a hot knife through butter but I didn't care. Safety precautions were never really an issue back then. Nobody wore helmets or pads when they rode a bike or skated down a neighborhood street. The only person you ever saw doing that was the retarded kid who lived on the corner. Even in the upscale neighborhood we lived in, playing with bricks and dirt and any other weird shit was more fun than playing with over priced Fisher Price crap. The only real fun outdoor toy was the slip 'n slide. We would lay that thing out on the lawn and go crazy for hours. It didn't even matter if the lawn was a well manicured one or not. Some of my friends had what looked more like a desert junkyard than a backyard. More gravelly than grassy. Didn't matter. We'd still lay that slide out and spend hours scraping knees, getting concussions, eating dirt. Fuck yeah that was a fun time!