All it's missing is a curly slide...

[image from Laughing Squid]

My wife heard about this project in San Francisco going on today called PARK(ing), a temporary effort to take back public space normally reserved for cars and turning them into parks. Basically, they set up a temporary park in a couple of metered parking spots. Anyone can sit and enjoy the park so long as they feed the meter. If I only had this much free time to think up things like this and make them happen...