dancing with the stars

One of my dreams growing up was to have a house with a fireman's pole that you could slide down from an upper floor. I'm pretty sure the dream stemmed from my carefree days of climbing around on the school yard monkey bars with agile skill and bountiful glee. Well I got older, and the agile skill isn't so agile anymore, but I'm still filled with bountiful glee. But being older of course, made me realize that poles weren't just for climbing around on or for rapid transport to a lower level. In fact, poles could be used for something... else. For whatever reason, there was an ad for such alternative use poles which popped up along side one of my emails. I wonder if I could find some place to install one of these shiny homages to the imagination of mankind.