Water Slide: buy this for your kids or they will hate you

I spied this monstrosity at Wally World (a.k.a.- world dominator, and bane of all humanity, Wal-Mart) yesterday. It is a gigantic, inflatable water slide. It didn’t look as cool in real-life as it does in this pic. The best part is that you can soothe your guilty conscious by indulging your neglected, runny-nosed, latch-key rug rats for a mere $249.77!!! Back in my day, if you were cool, you had a Slip ‘N Slide. So, naturally, I didn’t have one. Though, my kid brother and I had a “ghetto” Slip ‘N Slide. My Folks were too cheap to buy us a real one, but they did break open the wallet to spring for a roll of black plastic tarp (damn, that thing got hot) and free rein over the water hose. Talk about a deprived childhood. I may need therapy.

If you are bored check out this moderately amusing video of some college guys demonstrating an indoor ghetto Slip ‘N Slide.

Have a happy Memorial Day- hug a veteran!