Now I know why I never owned a Slip & Slide
One of the great eye-opening things about being a parent is figuring out your own parents, and no matter how hard you try and how much you vowed never to do certain things, you catch yourself doing and saying the same things that annoyed you as a kid.
Along those lines, I figured out why I never owned a “Slip N Slide” as a child. It always looked like oh so much fun, but I swear I’ve never been on one, so of course I had to buy one for my own kids.
I slightly obsess over the grass in my yard, always wanting it to look like a perfectly manicured fairway, and of course, it’s always in vain. I am absolutely convinced that creeping charlie was planted in my yard as some kind of punishment from above. Nothing can kill it. Literally… and if it gets in your flowerbed, you might as well raze the whole darn thing. Maybe it’s nature’s way of getting back at me for my complete disdain of the trendy organic food movement.
So here’s what a Slip and Slide does to your lawn after a good afternoon playsession, and take into account that this photo is two weeks after the fact.
Have fun kids- and be kind to me when you get older, because someday you’ll have your own kids and you know what they say… payback is hell!
June 25th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Slip and Slides are brutel on the lawn. Although my Dad wasn’t to happy when we played “Running bases” in our front lawn either. I’m pretty sure that was sod he used to replace the damage.