Potentially DEADLY conditions in McDonald's playlands - Page 2

[Ldavis24]

Originally Posted by mamazee 

Well we only used to go there in the bitter cold. I agree outside > play place, but sometimes it's nice to have indoor places to run around and get the energy out.

you mean you aren't supposed to take your toddler to a mall and let them run around there?? Oopsie...

I haven't even been in a McDs in a long time but once in a while I will sneak a drive through order of just french fries...why are they so good yet so gross..

DD has never even seen the play places so in my head what she doesn't and doesn't know about won't hurt her...

I am kinda grossed out though, I used to play in those things all the time. A lot A lot...we ate a lot of fast food in my family.

[MissMaegie'sMama]

Originally Posted by Llyra 

Myself, I think it's a fantastic argument for forgoing the fast food and the artificial plastic environment, and letting kids go back to playing outside.

 I agree!

Honestly, all those indoor play places gross me out regardless of how "clean" they appear to be.

[MissMaegie'sMama]

Originally Posted by Ldavis24 

 I used to play in those things all the time. A lot A lot...we ate a lot of fast food in my family.

Kinda off-topic, but I have to say that I miss the McDonald's playlands from my childhood (the ones that were outside like a regular playground.) They were terribly unsafe by today's standards, but I have fond memories of them nonetheless. My favorite structure was this "Hamburglar" thingy that was basically a tube with a ladder that led to a low-ceilinged circular "jail." If there were other kids inside the structure, the only way you could get out of it was to jump out the window, which was about 5 feet off the ground and faced a fence that was about 3 feet away from the window. It was just SO wrong.

[NiteNicole]

Originally Posted by Llyra 

Myself, I think it's a fantastic argument for forgoing the fast food and the artificial plastic environment, and letting kids go back to playing outside.

That's always my first choice, but when it hits 117 or it's been raining for six solid weeks, sometimes you have to find something else to do.  I obviously wouldn't let my daughter play in one that looked gross, had food or...whatever else...in it.  But the ones that seem fairly clean?  Sure. That's what hand washing is for. 

[Lisa1970]

We used to go to Chuck E Cheese all the time until one of the kids told me that would not go in the tunnels because they were too dirty. By then, my older kids were teens and we had been going for years. So I asked the teens. Yep...disgusting conditions up there, obviously never cleaned. I am unsure adults ever go in there so who knows what is up there. We don't go anymore.

[Lisa1970]

Can the health department do anything? 

[Lisa1970]

The other ones seem clean because you have not been in the tubes.
 

Originally Posted by NiteNicole 

That's always my first choice, but when it hits 117 or it's been raining for six solid weeks, sometimes you have to find something else to do.  I obviously wouldn't let my daughter play in one that looked gross, had food or...whatever else...in it.  But the ones that seem fairly clean?  Sure. That's what hand washing is for.