These were death traps!

I was literally thinking "click click click" in my head when I came to the comments and laughed out loud when I saw this was the first comment. Thank you.

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Kade7596@reddit

pretty sure these inspired the saw movies

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VashMM@reddit

Ah, too far... Gotta fold it back up and start over.

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bigalindahouse@reddit

I bought two of the bottom right for July 4th this past year. Only chair I sit in outside now.

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Classic_Barnacle_844@reddit

Those fabric folding chairs pinch my thighs. It's old school for me!

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bakedveldtland@reddit

do you remember where from, i loved those chairs

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bigalindahouse@reddit

Menards. They even have a little bag for a can and pocket items on the right hand side.

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Unusual_Tune8749@reddit

Plus, you can redo the webbing if they start to fray! I remember my parents re-doing them. With today's chairs, there is way less ability to fix and reuse.

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_--_Osiris_--_@reddit

Hell yeah! I still have 4 OGs I got from my parents that are still going surprisingly

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Explaingineer@reddit

The amount of times I pinched my fingers in the hinges of those loungers 😖…

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Taupenbeige@reddit

My first thought: “point where on the diagram the bad chair hurt you” 😂

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Illustrious-Tap8069@reddit

There were also those stacking white metal ones with the mesh grid. I guess they should have had a cushion or something but they never did.

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ZedPrimus84@reddit

I had forgotten these things. I have fallen through more than one....

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Corndogeveryday@reddit (OP)

And they got so hot sitting in the sun! You could get third degree burns 😂

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FreddyNoodles@reddit

“I’m thirsty, I getting some tea- you guys want any?”

Shlooooooooooop

“Damn, man, fuck these chairs.”

Average Saturday afternoon for 5 years.

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mrcashmen@reddit

And ........ YOU GET SWALLOWED.,😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️🫥🖤

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DarkBusy3818@reddit

Ugh, can still feel the clamping down of those teeth on my skin.

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ionlycome4thecomment@reddit

I for one am really surprised I still have all my fingers. Holding lit fireworks in the hand & throwing them (not at people) is so stupid

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when i was like 6, the older neighbour kids had those little dynamite stick looking fireworks. one of theirs didn't go off so i picked up the dud. the fuse was gone so i grabbed my dads lighter and burned the end of it until it blew up in my hand and left my ears ringing

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snotrockit1@reddit

lady fingers, you got lucky, to small to take a finger. but it felt like someone hauled off and smacked your hand with a shovel.

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balding_git@reddit

oddly i just remember my ears ringing and my hand being numb, the neighbor kids that lost it came at me off pissed but then got all concerned and ran my hand under some water lol

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snotrockit1@reddit

Any other ones would have hurt you bad, I still like these for that reason, and a nice little bang.

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ionlycome4thecomment@reddit

The good old days where there was easy access to light shit up.

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TheDodoBird@reddit

…or sometimes at people. ¯⁠\\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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fleshdorito@reddit

I remember being 7 with my 10 year old brother at night throwing fireworks at the neighborhood kids for fun while ducking behind cars. This was after the celebrations and mom went in the house - she left us with her lighters on purpose. I think as long as we were out of her hair. I don't know how we survived!!

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Zerkcie@reddit

….or even use a tube with one end blocked and a handle taped to it so you can aim them at your friends in a bottle rocket war.

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TheDodoBird@reddit

Yeah, or that. Sometimes.

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thekinslayer7x@reddit

Thank God so many of managed to survive the killer lawn chairs lol

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graveybrains@reddit

At least one of our killer lawn chairs failed to survive our killer lawn darts.

I was so grounded.

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Corndogeveryday@reddit (OP)

No we didn’t, but we turned out fine! Well…..sorta fine

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cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit

Survivorship bias

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MyNameCannotBeSpoken@reddit

Pour one out for those we lost along the way

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Acceptable-Double-98@reddit

Forgotten memory

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LiquidHotCum@reddit

Eh the woven were better than the next era of white lawn chair imo

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n8ers@reddit

I broke a finger in one of these when I was four, good times.

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MlsterFlster@reddit

We still had the old ones with the wooden slats.

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butterednoodlelovers@reddit

These ones are nice looking. I'd buy them if I saw them. But does the hot wood weld to your thighs like the plastic ones did?

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MlsterFlster@reddit

No, but the aluminum rails are indescribably painful in the summer heat.

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PresentationLost1006@reddit

An elementary school classmate lost his pinky finger in one of those. When he said it happened in a “lawn chair” (in a deeply southern accent) my tiny brain heard “lion chain”, which sounded totally badass and also confusing. I was imagining a circus visit gone wrong. When I found out the truth, it was even more confusing, but now seems plausible.

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AdjunctFunktopus@reddit

I haven’t forgotten them. Now I get up in the morning and my knees feel like trying to unfold one of these fuckers.

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Manofmanyhats19@reddit

And yet I could get out of one of these a hell of a lot easier than the canvas that you just sink into now.

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Imtifflish24@reddit

I can feel the burn🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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HratioRastapopulous@reddit

I used to take two of the long ones and place them upside down in the bed of my dad’s truck so they formed an arched roof for a fort.

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Accomplished_Pen980@reddit

The wealthiest and most powerful mafiosos in the world, smoking an imported, contraband cigar in a 5,000 dollar silk suit sitting on one of these crappy, dry rotted aluminum chairs, in every movie and tv show.

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PsionicKitten@reddit

Hot Take: The top one was quite comfortable.

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HobbiesLastLimb@reddit

I can still feel by back stuck to one of the tubes, i think its blue.

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Klinky1984@reddit

Were they ever comfortable, even when not as hot as the sun? No. It's just a blow-up mattress, better than nothing, but barely.

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manager_dave@reddit

Don’t forget how hot the plastic was too!

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Shadrach77@reddit

And earwig dispensers.

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Comfortable_Elk831@reddit

Death traps, forts, race cars and fighter jets. We had imagination back then too.

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emeraldrose484@reddit

No, no, the lounger was a tent, tunnel, house, etc!

My grandparents had some of these and my cousins and I would spend absolutely hours playing on them in the yard during the summer. Folding them up into a triangle, putting them in a row - it was about as good as a cardboard box. And being plastic meant we would put them in the path of the sprinkler too.

So much fun with these!

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RiverRemarkable8503@reddit

I pretty much guarantee my dad has a few of these in his basement that haven’t seen sunshine since the 80s.

I’ll have taking them to the dump someday

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shrimpcreole@reddit

The smell of hot plastic, sunscreen, and chlorine!

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metallady84@reddit

They made an awesome fort though- it would just cost you a finger or 2 each time.

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jawnbaejaeger@reddit

I was just thinking about these. (I don't know why, but I was.) I haven't seen these stupid chairs in forever, but they were the chairs of my childhood.

Then they all disappeared, I guess?

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JamarcusFarcus@reddit

The nice thing was if there was a terrible Jarts accident, you could stick an appendage through these for a quick tourniquet

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ryhoyarbie@reddit

Those things were cheap as hell back in the day.

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psyclopsus@reddit

I watched my mom get folded into and dragged partially across the yard in one of those chairs by our dog whose leash was tied to it. Random unleashed dog trotting through the neighborhood and our dog went after it with mom screaming in tow for a couple feet

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OneandOnlyBobTom@reddit

That first one was also a ramp and a death trap if configured incorrectly.

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5uck3rpunch@reddit

I have been pinched by many of those models

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crackedtooth163@reddit

I think we still have the green and white one in storage

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badjoeybad@reddit

Watch your fingers on those loungers folks!

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DrewBaron80@reddit

My mom lost the tip of her finger while adjusting a chair at the pool. It wasn't the kind OP posted, but still a 90s lounge chair.

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j1mmyfever@reddit

“… for obese people” should be appended to this title

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hokie47@reddit

The old school style lawn chairs in my opinion are better than most of the camping style ones. Especially if you pay a little more and get the aluminum made ones vs heavy steel ones. Perfect weight and you can add a strap to carry them.

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Scrapla1@reddit

Fell through, burned, finger caught in folding mechanism

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Josephthebear@reddit

I've never seen anyone lay successfully in one of those long ones

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the-cookie-momster@reddit

Just by looking at that picture I can still feel my skin pulling away from these things after sitting on them after swimming for a while

Or how we would bring them to the beach and one end would end up being so much higher than the other and it would add a weird stretchy tension to the skin touching it

Or every time my younger family members would try to stick their head and hands through it like they were stuck in the medieval stocks ... as a parent now, yikes 😬

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marbotty@reddit

I’m pretty sure we have every one of the items pictured here in these exact colors

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Ippus_21@reddit

Seriously.

I had one of those damn chaises try to chewy kneecap off one time. I was halfway on and the ratchet released unexpectedly and my knee landed in the mechanism as it was closing.

I was maybe 9 or 10 and I don't remember ever seeing so much of my own blood before. Still have that scar.

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