Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Way Back When-sday


These are pictures of a water slide my brothers and I built on the hill -- I remembered it as being much bigger -- that led to the ditch in front of the house in which we lived in Grifton, N.C. We took a big roll of plastic sheeting, secured the top edge at the top of the hill and then used a hose to run water down it. We eventually dammed it up at the bottom so that you basically slid down the hill into a nasty pool of dirty, grassy, yucky water. It was awesome. We had a neighborhood pool -- the neighborhood was built around a small golf course and swimming pool -- but the ingenuity is what made this so special for us. We thought we were something for coming up with this. And it was a great way to get girls in bikinis to come over to the house.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should be getting royalties from the makers of Slip 'N Slide...

Anonymous said...

So who's the girl hitting on your old man in the top left???

Anonymous said...

update...our right!

Victoria Williams said...

Were you really interested in girls in bikinis then?

Traci Lyn said...

Jeffrey, You could've grown up to be a Washington College Student. We--yes, I said we--used to do co-ed naked mud sliding down the hill by "George" on May Day. I think we used plastic...dining hall tray, I believe, were reserved for snow. I can't remember exactly though. Probably due to all the Popov Vodka I drank....EWWWW!!!!!