I dropped one of the new bulbs on the floor. Instead of calling the haz-mat team, I just swept it up like we used to sweep up thermometers that had broken. When we were kids, it was fun to chase those little balls of mercury around the floor, and here I am at age 86 and I can’t see any long-term problems because I did that.
“When we were kids, it was fun to chase those little balls of mercury around the floor,...SNIP... I can’t see any long-term problems because I did that.”
EXACTLY what my wife said when I read another thread on this subject to her last week.
I remember as a kid playing with the mercury as well. I recall we used popsicle sticks to mess it around, and then nudge the little balls of mercury towards one another, and then they’d all of a sudden go into a big ball at the bat of an eye.
To a kid it was fun. Passing the time on a rainy day.