Slides

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning

you wake up and realize you've done slid.

~ Sugar Ray Robinson

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When I was a kid I broke my brother's arm because we were running down the slide in our backyard and he tried to go twice in a row. I didn't, like, grab his arm and snap it, I just grabbed his ankles to try and get him not to go out of turn and he fell and his arm broke. He started crying and I tried to get him to shush, but it's not easy to shush a kid with a broken arm.