Those Damn Slide Outs!

Slide Outs are a wonderful innovation that have increased the inside space of motor homes and campers.  This marvelous innovation comes with a downside.... Collisions between humans and steel.  Eric spends more time puttering around outside near the motor home than I do and he's paid the price, repeatedly....  

Unfortunately, Eric has walked into the extended slides on our motor home, more than once.  Yesterday I was sitting in our Jeep, waiting to leave our campground in Ogden for Salt Lake City.  Eric opens the driver side door and swats at the right side of his pant leg.  It's covered with sand and some dried grass.  Hmmm..... Eric tells me that he walked into a slide on the driver's side of the motor home and the collision knocked him onto his ass.  Then he bends down and shows me his head.  There's an egg forming on the top... Awww..... I kiss my hand and gently pat the egg.

This is not the first time Eric hit his head on a slide.  Most often, he ends up with a cut on his head.  I want to put tennis balls on the ends of the slides and swimmy tubes along the bottom edges of the slides.

We haven't done this, so far..... I think I should invest in soft things that make collisions less jarring.