[NoGrayZone]

Amen. Our jungle gym consisted of metal and a hard dirt ground.

We used to play tag on it....only one way (the entrance) to escape...without touching the ground, and you had to jump it.

We did flips, ran across those monkey bars, jumped the “impossible”...just not to be tagged.

If we fell, we fell. We said ouch, laughed at whomever fell and continued on.

[dandiegirl]

If we fell, we fell. We said ouch, laughed at whomever fell and continued on.

And if you got hurt, no one sued the school. We used to climb on the monkey bars and all the girls wore shorts under our dresses so our underwear wouldn’t show. It was a major accomplishment when we could go all the way across bar to bar with our hands.

[SledgeCS]

The jungle gym we had as a kid, my dad made out of cast iron pipe. The school got one about 5 years later, we use to play Mad Monkey on it. Tag on a jungle gym, lots of jumping and leaping for the other side, no-one ever got hurt bad. After us kids grew up my dad gave our gym to the school where is was in use for 12 years before the school decided it was unsafe because the 1/4” bolts we used to double secure it had the threads exposed and some kids MIGHT get hurt.

And where the hell on that safe playground can ya have a real old fashion dirt-clod fight?