The Big Kid Slide

Remember the days when you were younger and you wished you could be like the big kids and do what they did? Well, when i was in elementary school there was only one thing i wanted to do that all the big kids did. I wanted to slide down the BIG KID SLIDE. We had two playgrounds, one for kindergarten through fourth grade and then one special playground for the fifth graders. At recess my friends and I would stare at the slide. The big kid slide was like the tongue of a monster. It was long and curvy. We knew we weren't allowed on the slide so, all of us young ins couldn't wait for the first day of fifth grade. As the school year passed I was one day closer to being able to ride the big kid slide. The last day of school my kindergarten year is the one day i will never forget. One brave soul named Austin decided he would stand up to that monstrous tongue. Even though he knew he would get in trouble he did it anyway. Austin sat his little kindergarten butt at the top of the big kid slide and pushed his body with his hands. His little body shot down that never ending slide like a bullet. Austin went so fast that when he reached the bottom of the slide he flew off the edge. His end result was a broken leg. That is why we weren't allowed on the big kid slide and that is why I could wait till fifth grade to ride the big kid slide.