Brian K. Law
For entertainment, my sisters and cousins and I would take the youngest sibbling’s crib mattress from their crib and drag it into the livingroom for a slide-fest extravaganza!
Crib mattresses in the 80s were slippery as eel snot. A quick propping up against the front side of the couch with the bottom held in place either by someone’s feet or a coffee table and wah-lah, instant fun! A half-dozen or so toddler to youth-aged children wearing nothing but diapers/panties and socks would stand and wait their turn, bouncing on the couch cushions in anticipation. We would crawl up on the back/top of the couch (against the wall) and then plop onto the mattress for a short-lived and fast flop down the “slide”. *I tried to find a photo of this, sure that many others did the same thing, but alas…no luck.
The number of injuries cannot be counted (except for the stand-alone favorite, when I slide head-first into the coffee table corner and shattered my nose) but the fun was sooo worth it! Mom would cus and rant and rave at us but non-the-less, we slid and slid until our hearts were content (or until there was blood).
Good times. Cheap, trailer-park fun as always! And bonus, no need to go outside in the sun and blister your bottom on one of those 1960s circa-esk slides in the playground. Besides, I couldn’t be in the sun anyway due to my allergy. That’s another story.
Slide on friends!
14 day risk-free trial. Sure. Why-not.
My goodness…I thought the family didn’t fork on one side of the tree.
Not both.
Risk-free my tush. I want a refund.
THE SOUTHERN TEN COMMANDMENTS: This is much easier to remember !!! (1)Just one God. (2)Put nothin’ before God. (3)Watch yer mouth. (4)Git yourself to Sunday meetin’. (5)Honor yer Ma & Pa. (6)No killin’. (7)No foolin’ around with another feller’s gal (or ‘nother gal’s feller). (8)Don’t take what ain’t yorn. (9)No tellin’ tales or gossipin’. (10)Don’t be hankerin’ for yer buddy’s stuff. Now that’s plain an’ simple. And bless your little cotton pickin heart