Swingtown
Posted on 06.18.05 2:00PM in friends, funny stories
Yesterday, I spent a good deal of time carting my great friend Ying around town because she needed a chauffeur whilst her car was being repaired at the Honda dealership in Pinellas Park. Because we were in South County already, we decided to make a stop at her “favorite fast food restaurant”:http://www.evos.com/home.cfm and then, because we are a couple of crazy kids, we found a nifty park wherein we could play on the swings.
I swear, these swings were like rocking death seats. With every glide back and forth, these things would let out a piercing sound that, from what I could guess, resembled the mating call of a blue whale. The seats were so low and awkwardly bent just enough to make the pain in our butts noticeable without actually causing them to go numb after a few minutes of swinging.
Other than that, though, the overall swinging experience was fun. That is, of course, until it tuckered us out – an occurrence that didn’t take ten minutes to become a reality. At the end of our swing session, my biceps were strained from grabbing, by legs were dead from kicking, and my ambition was ripped at the seams. I just wanted to sit on a bench somewhere.
Seriously, how do little kids do it? They can tackle monkey bars, teeter-totters, slides, and swings like they claim the local playground as the primary residence on their 1040 form in May. They must be little balls of insane amounts of energy. Either that or they constantly snort cocaine.
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Posted by Kyle on 10.15.05 at 17:30:05
man, don’t you remember what it was like to be that age, wake up early, run to the play ground, snort some coke and then have a blast
Posted by Kyle on 10.15.05 at 17:30:32
oh dear god, did you really eat there???
Posted by Angus on 10.15.05 at 17:30:49
Ah yes, the days when coke snortin’ was legal…
Posted by Kyle on 10.15.05 at 17:31:09
give me a break, I lived in St. Pete – our sand boxes were filled with coke
Posted by Kristen Marie on 10.15.05 at 17:32:06
CASEY I LOVE YOU OHMYGOSH… i am home. that is all, sweets. (insert kissing smiley face here)
Posted by Kaitlin Carlin on 10.15.05 at 17:31:38
man o man…i even miss south county. lol and the fast food place sounds awesome! too bad we have none of that here. man we only have 1 mcdonalds! anyways. bye!