If you know anyone with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, ask them how to pre! It still isn’t fun, but we do know tricks. Folks who only need to do it once a decade have no idea how easy they have it!
Having grown up in north Florida, the way to deal with a hot slide is to throw a couple of handfuls of sand down the slide ahead of trying to slide down yourself. Of course in Florida the sunny playgrounds have a lot of sand around.
I think our first one was 9600.