"Tara" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 19:01:14 -0400, "jmcquown" >
> wrote:
>
>> How about they close the playgrounds at McD's and BK's?
>>Kids probably wouldn't want to go there if there were no toys and no
>>playground facilities.
>
> Those playplaces are a blessing on long road trips with my boys. They
> can get some wiggles out while my husband and I finish a bite to eat
> or a cup of coffee in piece. I remember rest stops with playgrounds
> from my childhood, but I don't see that option on the road anymore.
>
> We love Chick-Fil-A playplaces on rainy days. Chick-Fil-A prizes
> aren't bad. Recently, the "If You Give A Moose A Muffin" series of
> books were featured.
>
> My boys are more interested in the playplaces than the toys. They
> always want to know how long they can play, not what toy did they get.
> I wonder if all prizes are banned, or toys only. Do crayons,
> books,etc. count as toys under this law?

I used to HATE the play places. The kids will go in there and then won't
come out. They'll always stay up there in some tube where you can't get to
them unless you physically go up there and drag them back out. Not that I
have a lot of experience with kids. Just my nieces and nephews, my daughter
and her friends.

The other thing is that they are unsanitary. I can't tell you how many
times my daughter or my husband reported that some kid threw up or peed in
the tubes. I also know of a girl who used to go to my daughter's dance
studio who got an infected toe from a play place. She was barefoot which
was probably a bad idea to begin with. Banged her toe on some part of the
play area. It bled a little and they thought nothing of it. But then it
got badly infected. So badly infected that she couldn't get her tap shoe on
for weeks!