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I have lately found myself contemplating the pros and cons of buying a pool. In talking this over with one of my friends from back home, he suggested that I buy a slip-n-slide instead. Ahaha. Which, of course, just reminded me of some of the really, really stupid shit that I did with slip-n-slides in my past. And so I figured that this would be a great topic for a new entry, seeing as how it's summertime now. Right? Right. So. Here we go. Gather around for storytime, everyone.
Back in high school, when there was nothing to do during the summer months, one Henry Longo would find other ways to occupy his time. One extremely hot day, a buddy of mine and I decided that we wanted to play with a slip-n-slide. Neither of our parents, however, found this to be as good an idea as we did. So, instead, like the geniuses these we were (and still are), we decided to make our own. Scouring each other's garages, we came up with one of those really big blue tarp things that my dad used to cover shit in the back of his pick-up truck. Taking that out onto the back lawn, we tried it with water. That didn't really work very well, ahaha. So then we tried it with canola oil. That worked a little better. So we put more water and more oil, and it was this oily, watery mixture... and we actually slid down it like it was a slip-n-slide. Ahaha.
Deciding then that we HAD TO HAVE AN ACTUAL SLIP-N-SLIDE, my buddy and I walked down the street to the WalMart, covered head to toe in oil, and bought a slip-n-slide and a carton of canola oil. We have never gotten so many strange looks as we got that day, ahahaha. We got back home and set up the slip-n-slide, with the same oily & watery mixture, and... lmfao. We fucking FLEW down that thing. I got grass burns on my chest from it because I flew all the way to the end and hit the grass. That wasn't pleasant. Throughout that entire summer, we tried so many different things on that slip-n-slide. Including, but not limited to: pudding, jello, cottage cheese, chocolate syrup, maple syrup, and many, many more. But nothing worked as well as the canola oil and water.
Now that I'm reliving this to write this entry, I kind of want to do this again. Fuck it, I'm buying a slip-n-slide. Ahahaha. I know what I'm doing this weekend!
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