What the actual fuck is wrong with playgrounds these days? When I was younger, I would always want to play on the playground whenever we were at a sporting event for one of my siblings, or if we just happened to see one that looked amazing, but now that I look back, the builders seemingly have no concept of what the things in the park are supposed to do. This one is a good example of that, but the one that kills me the most is that spiral thing that you see at most playgrounds, but it is *almost always* built incorrectly. You’re supposed to have the pole in the middle so that you sit at the top of the spiral and spin down it using the pole to help you get started, and to me that is the coolest shit ever.

But for some reason, the architects are stupid and seemingly think it’s just another fancy ladder, like the 30 other ladders you see around playgrounds to get up to the top, so they put the pole on the side to make it easier, but it makes it impossible to spin on it because your legs will hit the pole. And every time I see one of those faulty coils, it just burns me up. If I see one that is built correctly (and if my legs fit), I may even try it out just for its sheer rarity and ingenuity (I’m 17 so not quite too old yet), but as society keeps coddling technology, I doubt any future generations will get to know the joy of a correctly built playground. All of the ones that were once the best places to go will be in disrepair and if any are still being built (which may still be the case since they recently built a new one in town), they will never yield that same former glory that made being a child all so much more fun, just because people are overly paranoid about safety and can’t remember what it was like to have fun as a child, resulting in a bunch of useless collections of bland slides and fancy ladders that all do the same damn thing.

Tl:dr Playgrounds are broken cuz architects have no sense of fun, the worst example being those spiral “ladders” that you are supposed to sit and spin down, but are now unusable because they build them wrong most of the time.