Mark Fairchild said:

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But, you did win UIL for Extraneous Speech. We in the family always knew that you would "ACE' that.

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Oh yes I thrive in speaking....never lacked in the talking arts!!!

missinAggieland said:

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Things that give your age away…

Oh the fashion:

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Oh Lord those used to melt to my feet during hot summers. But we loved them.

aggiewilliford said:

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Items that give away your age...

If you grew up when playgrounds were made of solid steel and were built on a mix of grass and concrete....this is for you!

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That plinker grid of steel haunts me. I hit my chin and bit through my tongue - 4 years old. I just can't.

My elementary school had two playgrounds. One brand new one with a plastic slide, but the other one was still the burning metal slide. We also had the metal balance beams and pull-up bars that everyone learned to do flips on.

Instead of the plinko tower we had the hexagon version. And if anyone else was from Amarillo, do they remember climbing on the wooden pirate ship or climbing up inside tower at the park by southwest and bell?

The park my grand parents took us to had a metal firetruck for climbing and this metal half circle see-saw like thing that they ended up having to chain down after too many kids flipped it.

Yep we had a wooden pirate ship in midland, and I got giant splinters in my hand every time I climbed it. I also had several leg burns from the metal slide of doom.

We had the metal slide that was 200 degrees, monkey bars and parallel bars like a dip bar height that we would have races on

You would swing legs over one side, run to other side and repeat until one person tagged the other.

That usually happened when someone banged the **** out of their knee and stopped.