Slippery slope

This amusing photo came around on social media a while ago:

But it got me to thinking about the place I lived in Seoul—a complex of 12 six-story apartment buildings (half with indoor toilets; none with elevators). The play area was behind my building. It consisted of a sandbox and a slide. The slide was in the shape of an elephant:

And the entire thing was made of concrete, including the elephant’s-trunk slidy part. Unpolished concrete. If it had ever been painted, that had long since been worn away by little butts.

Not so bad in winter, of course, but in summer…

Well, as you can see, the kids didn’t seem to mind about it. In fact, they very seldom bothered with the actual steps.

And if they’d still had the box it came in, I’m sure they’d have had a grand time playing in that, as well.