I was blessed with one of the best neighbourhood playgrounds ever and it included a white corkscrew slide nearly the same as the one pictured in the article. Th

I was blessed with one of the best neighbourhood playgrounds ever and it included a white corkscrew slide nearly the same as the one pictured in the article. There were several summers spent in that playground all day every day it wasn't raining. I thought I was going to be a stuntman. I was 8 when I first leapt from the very top of the slide, which was the highest point in the playground. I was very proud. Later we invented the game of "headtag", which was a game of tag wherein a tag was only valid if it was of a person's head. It was played entirely on the twirly slide, we allowed a landing and 2 steps on the ground which was enough to get back on the slide should one leap off to avoid getting tagged. This made for a compact, fast paced game of tag best played with 3 people. We started getting good after a few years, and used the slide like a piece of gymnastics equipment, chasing each other around it like squirrels on a tree. I've since gone on many adventures and done many seemingly dangerous things and I owe my ability to keep my ass in one piece to the skills I cultivated in that playground. That slide in partivcular, I'm so nostalgic for it. In 2003 they ripped it out, along with a dozen others from various playgrounds of the 70s and early 80s.