I felt a disturbance in the fun, as if a million playgrounds cried out, and then (idea) by kslawson

At the second elementary school I attended, Riley School, there was a gigantic (or so it seemed at the time) wooden play structure, with two towers connected by a walkway, a couple of slides, a multitude of swings, and a little jungle gym that seemed dangerously high off the ground. On that playset I felt I was king of the world.

And as Cid mentions, wooden playgrounds are not an extinct species. Here in Rochester, we have a couple. My friends and I play Vampire Tag on them in the wee hours of the night, sometimes with the owners' permission, sometimes without.

scrotum pole	The moment you realize you can't be good at everything	Vampire Tag	Recess is dead
Every "why" question can be answered by a phrase using the word "idiot"	The bees were cool	The Republicans, the Democrats, and the Cobra Venom	Lazer Tag
How I learned the secret of the pendulum from Japanese playground equipment	Disturbance in the force	The letter I'm too chicken to mail	Chicken fight
I want it to be more like the things I write	Where do these girls come from these days? Some finishing school in the desert?	All the trees are gone and we are sad and we do miss them	Today, I almost got killed by Darth Vader
Robert's Rules of Order	Kids these days	centrifugal force	CCA
What to do if you've got too many votes on your hands	roundabout

I felt a disturbance in the fun, as if a million playgrounds cried out, and then (idea)

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