I played with mercury also, all paint was lead based, we had leaded gasoline, we even rode bicycles without helmets!!! Just because some parent had an idiot kid who ingested mercury or paint chips the government has come in to take control. Because they know better. The government is the idiot parent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> we even rode bicycles without helmets!!!
You daredevil, you !!!
Riding bicycles without helmets on GRAVEL in shorts, riding in the back of pickup trucks, no seatbelt on long cross-country trips, real sugar in our soft drinks, pbj lunches, REAL firecrackers and fireworks, etc etc.
Not to mention some of our experiments, like the “Fearless Fosdick Front-Wheel Foot Brake”. That one you only used ONCE! < BG >
It’s a miracle we’re alive at all, I’ll tell ya!