No running on the escalator!
Can I walk quickly? It's not running.
Do the public pool walk.
Careful, it's a trick to get us to exercise by climbing stairs!
Is there no level these fiends will stoop to, just to make us exercise?
You can't even run away from it. It's what they would want.
So they've got me in a exercise-22 (catch-22)? I'll just jump on somebody's back and they can give me a piggyback ride to the top
Forcing someone else to exercise on your behalf. They still win, the fiends!
It's an escalator
I'd still be racing up, last one in line is a rotten egg!
Well that escalated quickly
Don't tell me how to live my life!
Yeah! We're ADULTS!
Proceed sliding down
“Just making sure it’s safe for the kids.”
What if I walk with purpose?
Or a silly walk
Only if its approved by the appropriate ministry 😋
I found the ministry of silly walks, I suspect you all have a secret agenda...🤨
Real men put their head on the ground and use their knees to crawl forward.
This is the way
This is the way
Can't I just run up the slide?
No because then no one can slide down while you're hogging the slider all for yourself. We're childish, not barbarians!
Ur not my mom!
You should visit the subway some time
That kid IS BACK ON THE ESCALATOR!
Where the hell are that kids parents?
Bold of you to assume that i woudl use escalator rather than just run back on the slide...
At least you won't have to climb a metal ladder that's been sitting in direct sunlight on a 100-degree day.
Just means ya gotta move quick. Eventually, you get used to the heat. Scar tissue's an insulator.
The up side to a hot metal slide is the ability to wax it with a paraffin candle and achieve escape velocity at the bottom
Your ability to RUN back up entirely depends on how old you are.
Run up the long stairs
Youngness check: failed
I will very carefully walk up the stairs then to gently slide down the slide.
I’m 40 and run marathons. I know 2 70 year olds that would put me to shame.
That’s awesome! Honestly, as an internet stranger I’m proud of you!
Thanks for reminding me
I don’t man, there was always puke in the ball pit. . .
Seems like you speak from experience. Want to share your trauma with the group?
Nah dawg, ion wan to talk about it… I just 🤢 it was on my hands and then by time I realized it I touch my MOUTH. Never again @the McDonalds’ Playhouse
I'm lovin it
That's where you went wrong. Always check the liquid level and consistency before getting into the ball pit.
Bro I was seven, what liquid level doth thou speak of ?
Right after you 😭
Why do you think there is an escalator next to it.
Yes, but don’t cut. Wait your turn
I love you. Thanks for this and to my fellow Redditors that this is the top comment
21 M Today, in Decathlon, i rode the smallest cycle there with support wheels.
if you need to go down you don't even have a choice. the right one goes up, the left is down
"TeSt mY MaTuRITy"
If you wouldn't slide down that because you're "too mature" you can kiss my slide-loving ass
If you define maturity as "not sliding", you are most definitely a 12 years old
Yeah, same types of people that bullied me for still having toys when I was 12-13
Same, but then I discovered the Sims 4 and realized, jokes on you, I can still have toys, they’re just on my computer now.
Lol
Yes so i just stopped telling anyone
What that's insane. There's whole stores just about selling toys for adults. And moonshine apparently.
That's just mean. Like I have at least a hundred Transformers and I'm almost 20.
As someone with the mentality of a 12 year old, nah. Sliding is the mature thing to do.
Or just people who think life shouldn't involve fun now and again.
I wouldn't, but only because the internet has conditioned me to be grossed out by ball pits
That’s where I’m at with it, too! I’d slide down it if I knew I was the first person to be in the ball pit.
I don't even touch escalator rails unless I have sanitizer on me.
In my opinion, slide that is a sign of maturity.
Not doing it because "it is for kids" is childish
Do what you like and love, as far as you do not bother other people, is being mature
this is how i feel about riding my bike around town.
i'm 36, i own a car, i just enjoy biking. many drivers act like a bicycle is some baffling concept, or some major inconvenience to them. i feel sorry for adults that are so attached to status symbols that they can only be seen commuting in their jeep or range rover with tinted windows. i feel sorry for people who are in such a hurry they are racing to the bumper of the car ahead, just to slam on the brakes, and repeat. meanwhile i coast past them effortlessly with the wind in my hair and the sun on my face.
life is all about the simple pleasures. if i didn't stop to smell the roses, i'd be such a miserable cunt all the time. thats what defines maturity for me, is knowing that the rat race aint worth shit
Gonna be hard to kiss that ass while it goes down the slide.
I would maybe not because of my damned back, but never because I'm "too mature".
M/70 of course. I would push little kids out of the way to go again.
I’m 41 and I would push MY OWN KIDS out of the way to slide down this.
That's just being a good parent. You can't be sure if they'll clear out quick enough at the bottom to not get kicked in the head by you coming down the slide.
Survival of the fittest.
If he dies, he dies.
meanwhile, i slides
I’m 37 and would push anyone’s kids to slide
I can imagine a line of children waiting patiently to slide and these mfers are tossing kids left and right to get to the front. "get the f out of the way lil dipshits"
I think this is the first time I’ve agreed with anyone over 50 about something
Im 30 almost 31 and I like the way you think.
being mature means knowing what your feelings are and having the right words to describe them.
I would love to go on the slide, that sounds fun.
And only one word would describe my feelings: WHHEEEEEEE!
I had a blast the other day going up and down slides with my friends’ kids. And, yes, I totally would go down the slides by myself if given the opportunity. But, parks where I live have a rule that you have to be accompanied by a child to use the playground equipment. That bites because I’ve never heard of anyone being too old for the swings.
I hate that because swings are the best exercise. You are basically doing sit-ups that are a thousand times more fun.
I never thought about that way!! I'm going to go to the swings, don't mind me~
Have some fun for me. Here they have replaced the normal swing with the baby chair swing sadly 😭
I almost got stuck in one of those once. Luckily I managed to get out with some help! (Not the fire department)
😂same here 😂
The key to being mature is knowing when not to be mature.
Right? Since when did having fun = being immature?
Screw maturity. I’m doing this laying back.
I'm mature enough to admit I would slide down it.
I’m mature enough to admit, I’d go out of my way to drive to that mall and slide down that slide.
You mean test my immune system?
This, nix the bathroo- I mean: ball pit at the bottom and I'm in. Was excited when I saw the slide. Noped out when I saw the ball pit
I can’t believe this comment is so far down. That was my first thought as well.
As long as I can survive the slide without major illness or, more likely, majorly injuring myself when trying to exit the slide, I’m down
"Wheeee!"
“Wheeee!”
“Wheeee!”
“WOOOOOOOOOOO”
"Wooo-Hooo!!!"
“HOW ARE WE NOT AT THE BALL PIT YET”
"I DON'T KNOW! FROM THE TOP THE SLIDE LOOKS WAY SHORTER!"
“I DONT KNOW WHETHER TO BE HAPPY OR CONCERNED”
"I'D RATHER CHOOSE FIRST, CUZ SECURITY GUARD WHO CHASED ME WILL MAKE ME CHOOSE SECOND ONCE THIS SLIDE ENDS"
WHY ARE WE SHOUTING??
At my age? Yes! At my current weight? No!
I'm torn between "HELL YEAH BIG ASS SLIDE!!!" And "Oh... a ball pit. Man, I really don't wanna get sick or pink eye..."
same
Sure
depending on the diameter of this pipe :)
That’s what she said
Absofuckingyesly
Allmost pushing 40, and i would slide that badboy untill closing time😁 better time spendt than sitting in a café waiting for my wife to shop everything
I guess I don’t have a choice without a down escalator.
I'd forget why I was at the mall in the first place!!
To slide, of course
I'd totally know why I was coming back again tomorrow though..
you are never too old for a slide into colorful balls!
Yup, and then I'd touch my wife, because I know those slides build up a static charge.
It’s the person not the age, I know babies that wouldn’t go down this and seniors that would
Imagine the speed and air time a small baby would get down this massive slide! They'd probably miss the ball pit entirely!
‘Based on my calculations, your baby is outta here’
Come try the new BABY LAUNCHER, first aid in food court
I saw the video once about how disgusting ball pits are. And I know how horrible people are at wiping their booties
No
Are you... are you sliding into ball pits bottomless? If so I think I figured out why they're so gross.
Do you... slide into ball pits while wearing pants? They're literally called ball pits
Checkmate
Well now I know what I've been missing all my life.
are you sliding into ball pits bottomless?
Are you not?
Ngl I recently recorded a lecture about water and health. Apparently there's around 1 billion bacteria in a litre of clean tapwater. Of which most are 'good' (not pathogenic). And yepp that class made me feel a lil off. At the same time, it also put things into perspective.
As for ballpits, they're probably very disgusting yeah. But I wouldn't worry too much.
Name does not check out.
You don't have to lick them.
Too mature? Anyone saying they wouldn't go down that slide willingly is already dead inside.
I'm pushing through middle age and I hope I would do it for the next 50 years. Now tell me where it is.
Exactly, I'm not too mature, I'm just dead inside!
Get out of the way . . . . I'm coming through head first!!
I’ll fuckin do it again and again
In a heartbeat
One thing I truly enjoy while playing with my niece is that it suddenly socially acceptable to jump the trampoline or go down these slides, it’s pretty fun. Kinda sucks that as adults we stop doing these things
I know right? I’m 28 and love playing on the swing set by my house. Might be a different situation cuz I’m a woman and look like I’m 12 but c’mon let’s bring back enjoying simple things that make us happy even if they’re “childish”
Is there a weight limit?
(Asking for a friend)
No, because I'm not convinced it would be fun - that's a pretty long, steep slide and a pretty small ball pit with like 1.3 layers of balls
This is a facebook meme
Makes sense I'd like it since I'm right at that target middle aged Facebook demographic.
While the question is being finished, i would already be halfway down that slide screaming: what a stoopid questiiiiiioooooonnn. ^
I am so taking the slide. 50 going on 14!
I would slide down, might break my hip but it would be worth it.
Judging by this picture alone it seems to be the only way down, since the girl is standing on the escalator with her hand on the rail so it's actively going up. If you don't take the slide you stay in the mall... forever.
Who wouldn’t?
If I stand funny my ankle hurts for a week, after going down this I think I would just die
67, and hell yeah!
If you don’t there is something wrong with you
I would and I'm mature enough to not give a fuck what the person who made the caption thinks of me
Yes, because part of maturity is not giving a fuck about what strangers think.
If you don't.. we're no longer friends..
Sincerely the middle aged dad
Thats not a maturity test, thats a test for finding the soulless doppelgangers that have replaced people.
Ughhh first of all. Why they build it if we can't use it?
I cannot stress how much I WOULD NOT do this. Entirely because I know how many disgusting dumb people already have AND how many of them get stuck at the bottom because they are obese.
this ball pit is a foot deep at best 😂
What if the mall had just opened and it was the slides grand opening and you were first in line, would you do it then?
100%
It depends on what I wear in the moment. If casual 100% going for slide
43, and fuck yeah I would.
85 kilos accelerating downhill is not the same as 35.
I'd want to slide, but am 30...that woud either kill me or leave me broken till i die
100% no question. Bening an adult is "you" problem not a me problem.
At 23? Yes. Yes I would. Hell, even older
Absolutely and I’m a grown man who has to shave his head due to receding hair!
52 and yes
I'm 43, I'd slide down it multiple times
Im 40 and id kick the kids out my way to have a go on the slide
Hell yeah I would
If you wouldn’t either you can’t or you are too immature and stuck up with your image
And yes, I would go down the slide. Multiple times.
If you rather take the stairs, then you are officially mentally old, regardless of age.
Every damn time
I am 27 and will stay all day in the mall just playing with it
I am mature af. Still would slide, because being mature have nothing to do with being playfull ☝️
And after, I'll have ice cream
Maturity can’t be tested this way tho. Otherwise any adults who go to Disneyland are all immature and childish.
IF I FIT?!?! HELL YESSS
i'd be worried about my shorts becoming a thong. but yes. very yes.
I’d be going down that slide a shitload of times even if I was 100
100% I would and I'm almost 40
What maturity? I run on those while they’re going in the opposite direction to where I’m runnin’
If I'm off tomorrow, I'm taking the slide. I'm mostly just scared of hurting my back.
I'm 68 years old and hell yes i would
43 and hell yeah. Even if I’m in a suit.
I could 120 years old and I’m sliding down
Yes, multiple times. I'm 45.
I am 27 and you know damn well I am doing it.
What idiot wouldn’t?!
Sure, but I have to have the option to do it again and again, for as long as my granddaughter lets me.
Would you slide thi- Me: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
having fun does not equal immaturity
I'm 46 and would be honoured. Repeatedly
The only correct answer is yes, why even ask?
In a heartbeat and more than once. (I'm 72 lol)
I’m 57. Fuck yeah I’d take the slide
41 years old. Without hesitation.
You mean just once? Or can I race back up and do it again?