I can't speak for EmGee, but personally I'm not above, hmm...what shall I call them..."workplace inappropriate" thoughts.

But most of the time I'm pretty much a Pollyanna and have been known to blush a deep scarlet at the most mildly suggestive phrase.

This is all to say that usually I miss the double entendre or the sly reference. My brain just doesn't go there first.

So that's the set-up. Here's the story:

Yesterday Kerri and I took a walk around the Southwest neighborhood, which is the "south-est" and "west-est" neighborhood in Hartford. I recently referred to it as boring, but I've revised my opinion after visiting the Forster Heights Playground.

New playscapes are being installed at the playground, and it's a pretty nifty-looking place.



The spray pool is going to be amazing. It has rotating water cannons.


It also has a contraption that looks like it'll spin based on how the water is moving through it. And when the bucket is full, the water will be dumped on whoever happens to be standing below. Cool.


Kerri and I watched some kids playing on the playscapes, and climbed on some stuff ourselves.



And then we turned around a saw...a huge red tongue?

Wait! That's not all.

Was it a huge red tongue that is also a slide?

Yup. My brain went there.

This is disturbing. This is just wrong.

Here's a picture of Kerri, uh, "modeling" the slide.


Now, I've been informed by a close friend that a tongue is in the eye of the beholder. I get that. But when two grown women with individual brains and unique approaches to the world turn around and scream, "OMG, is that slide a tongue?!" at the same time, I think there isn't that much room for misinterpretation.

Seriously. That slide is disturbing. Not just 'cause it's a tongue. How about the accompanying pictogram that illustrates how to use it?



Mmmm...yeah. Even Pollyanna goes to a special place with that one.

So there's a red tongue-slide in Forster Heights Park. And it's not only disturbing, but dangerous. We watched a kid slide down it and he almost fell off. There are no railings, no sides, nothing.

You're just supposed to wrap your legs around it and go down.