Gah!

While walking back home from an interview this morning, I passed by a park I've been to since childhood only to see a giant hole where my beloved Spiderman jungle gym used to be! Gah!

Now, for those of you who don't know this park, let me explain. Rather than just the usual park-type apparatus (slides, swings, stuff to climb on, those weird animals on springs that you can "ride" by rocking them back and forth...) this park also had a huge tetrahedron-type structure covered in bars and dotted all over with occasional hard rubber mats suspended between the bars. Whether you were three feet tall or five, you could climb up it, play king of the castle, and get a good view of the whole park. I don't know what it was officially called, but everyone I know just says "The Spiderman Park" and we all know what we mean.

And now it's gone, sacrificed to the cruel monster of "Safety Standards". I am very upset about this. Even the construction worker overseeing the removal of sand from where my beloved childhood play park used to be commented on my stricken expression. He did assure me that "something very similar" would be going back in that space by July first, but I am both skeptical and pessimistic about the new apparatus being anywhere near as awesome as the old one.

Also, lest you think that this is just me whining about everything changing and being uselessly nostalgic (which I am, kind of), I should tell you that I still used this jungle gym. Why, just two weeks ago it was where Biku and I came up with the now world-famous Binto Scale and McKay Point . So by removing this beloved play place, not only is the cruel Town of Newmarket denying thousands of future children hours of enjoyment, they're also preventing me from becoming a world-famous inventor/writer/creative genius who will then reflect glory back on them.

So, in conclusion, this is bad. Very bad.