THE GREATEST THING INVENTED IN THE 80'S!

Evil toy if placed in the hands of stupid adults. I went to a friends party and their idiot parents put it on rocky ground. I guess I went first because my stomach got shredded my mom took me home.

I thought up the slip and slide before I ever saw it on shelves! Remember me anyone? I use to use a "Jack in the Box" plastic Hop Scotch sheet.1977-78? Spread it on the City of Chicago Sidewalk(Fletcher st) with a running garden hose. I would run and fall and slide. One day a man pulled over in his car and asked me a few questions.If I was having fun? If it hurt when I fell and slid? I told him I made it up and I had fun. It was a blast! Well I'd like to know did I actually invent it or did I unknowingly see it on TV?

wow..invented in 1961? didn't know. Thanks slip n slide for all the fun! The Jack n Box girl.

I spent meny a great summer days in the sun playing with all the neighborhood kids on a Slip-N-Slide!

We were never allowed to have one or play on them because our mother said they were too dangerous.

The toy was a plast, but I used to get sooo bruised up playing on bumpy or rocky ground. All was fine until my teachers thought that my parents were abusing me and called them in for a conference. Thanks Slip N Slide :)

We didn't have one so my sister, the girl next door, and I made one with trash bags and a garden hose. I don't think it worked that well. LOL. I think they still sell these!

My family used to put two of them together; we'd also put them on a hill in the yard. I don't think that'd fly nowadays. LOL!

wasn't the slip'n'slide also known as the wet banana?

I loooved my slip n' slide! We would fly off the end and get grass burns, so my dad came up with a solution. He got those big black leaf garbage bags and basically extended the slip n' slide for us. I know it sounds ghetto, but hey it worked and we got to slide a looot longer! :)

I spent many summers with bruises and grass rash from running off the end of that thing and/or hitting those metal stakes that anchored that death slide.

one summer, we covered the thing in soap to make it extra slippery. because i am brain damaged, i volunteered to go first. the soap accelerated my slide so much that i ended up in the hard next door, straight into a tree. i had my first broken bone because of slip 'n slide.

Oh, the horror stories I heard about Slip 'N Slide! And yet I still wanted one...