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   margueritem said, 8 months ago

   Definitely a ‘NO!’
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   templo SUD said, 8 months ago

   The “kids get lost for years” really makes it a “no.”
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   JudasPeckerwood said, 8 months ago

   There are certainly worse ways to grow old.
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   Arianne said, 8 months ago

   I loved the way those things would make my son’s hair stand on end. I always assumed it was from static electricity, not terror.
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   Gary McSpook said, 8 months ago

   I want to go to there.
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   Sisyphos said, 8 months ago

   Alice is not sure what Dill really thinks of the Big Jungle Gym. Maybe he should speak more laconically: “No.”
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   Citizen GROG! said, 8 months ago

   Certainly not!
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   cdward said, 8 months ago

   @margueritem

   Are you kidding? What better endorsement could you ask for? I’m in!
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   einarbt7 said, 8 months ago

   Alice is going and where she goes Dill will follow.
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    rocketscientist said, 8 months ago

    “Standing in a slide zone
    Falling through a time zone
    Steppin’ in a slide zone
    He had me falling through a time zone”

    —Slide Zone, Moody Blues
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    Dani Rice said, 8 months ago

    Am I too tall to go in?
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    nanaode58 said, 8 months ago

    Alice reminds me so much of my granddaughter! Dill means no, Alice wants to go!
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    Dry said, 8 months ago

    @Dani Rice

    I don’t know. How tall are you? :-D
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    Gokie5 said, 8 months ago

    1.. Notice that Dill is barefooted; Alice isn’t.
    2. I’m going to repeat a story I told about a tall jungle gym awhile back (had to be on this site). When my grandson, K, (who turned out to be an Aspie) was four, I took him to a Burger King with a three-story jungle gym. (BK, McD’s and them don’t seem to have play areas any more – lean times? Lawsuits? Aging of baby boomers?) He quick scampered to the third level, where there was, like, a ship’s wheel. By and by I heard a commotion up there – K had a death grip on the wheel and was hazy on the concept of taking turns. I saw an older boy twirl his finger beside his head – he noticed. Bawling and screeching for K to come down had no effect. So I hauled my sixty-six-year-old carcass up the tube to the third level (big-time grime and urine odor), and dragged K back down, inch by inch, with him kicking and screaming. Later, over a burger, he apologized for his behavior. It was a while, however, before I took him to another jungle gym.
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    Perkycat said, 8 months ago

    @Gokie5

    Cute story. I can’t even imagine trying to get in one of those things. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
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