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I went on a backyard trampoline once as a kid and it ended with the entire neighbourhood searching for me. I just couldn’t stop playing with my friends and was hours late for curfew. I had forgotten to tell anyone where I was. Fortunately, I integer overflowed my mom’s level of worry and she was too glad to have me back to be angry. Though, seeing her unwind from genuine terror was more effective than any level of sc…
I see a dark pattern in suburban France. Every house with kids has its trampoline, and often a play-frame and a pool too. Now, kids play with those a bit from time to time, but they rarely go to a friend's house, because they have their own thing there. So if there is a park, a pool or a trampoline in a park nearby, I would rather use them. I believe it is better for social and environmental reasons.
Somehow, my wife's co-workers managed to sneak a full size trampoline (with netting) into their Rental's living room; somehow the landlord is fine with the arrangement, having seen it in person.
The next lease/rental agreement/insurance they sign will have a Trampoline Addendum
I see a dark pattern in suburban France. Every house with kids has its trampoline, and often a play-frame and a pool too. Now, kids play with those a bit from time to time, but they rarely go to a friend's house, because they have their own thing there. So if there is a park, a pool or a trampoline in a park nearby, I would rather use them. I believe it is better for social and environmental reasons.
When our children were younger, every day they'd end up playing on the trampoline with some different subset of the dozen or so other neighborhood children (who didn't own a trampoline). There was tons of laughter, some tears and conflict - and overall an amazing way for these children to spend time together as they grew up.
Our kids have aged out of the trampoline now. But I was just driving through our neighborhood yesterday and I saw two other homes with trampolines, both filled with five or six kids, rolling around, playing, bouncing - exactly how the OP described and exactly what we saw in our own backyard.
Of course I had the financial means, which my mother did not. And so I was raised playing with typing paper and a few office supplies that she could "bring home" from work (as a secretary).
In the end it's hard for me to know if perhaps that wouldn't have been the better strategy: let kids learn to be creative with the most meager of playthings.
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It gets worse - if you make an unrelated insurance claim while owning an undisclosed trampoline then insurance company can deny your claim due to having the trampoline even if the claim has nothing to do with the trampoline. Not sure how common that is, but it's definitely a possibility. My cousin is an insurance adjuster and he said he denies claims for misrepresentation all the time. So all you trampoline owners I…
> ...while owning an undisclosed trampoline... This is the weirdest combination of words I have seen this week. If I own a trampoline, why would my insurance company care? And if they care, why doesn't the market fix this, parents with trampolines would certainly choose other companies.
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Would you feel better if their life-changing event came from a car wreck? Tragic things are unfortunately part of life.
In most of the USA getting around by car is mandatory. Trampolines are optional. Trampolines are one of the top avoidable causes of ER visits.