[sionnsar]

Sheesh. As a boy, every time a fever thermometer broke I collected the mercury to play with (20 or more times a CFL’s mercury) and decades later I’m still perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perf

[Jet Jaguar]

Me too. I, wait, what were we talking about?

[knarf]

And boy howdy could you get a penny to shine like the dickens by rubbing ... really rubbing that ol’ mercury all over the copper.

[Will88]

“Sheesh. As a boy, every time a fever thermometer broke I collected the mercury to play with (20 or more times a CFL’s mercury)”

There was some common use for mercury, but I don’t remember what. But as a kid, I also remember playing with the stuff and how it’d slide and roll around in your hands, and dropping it from one hand to the other. We also called it quicksilver, and I distinctly remember playing with globs of it as big around as a quarter.

[Ken H]

Another symptom of mercury oisoning-pay is that written ords-way will sometimes appear as pig latin.

[Libloather]

Sheesh. As a boy, every time a fever thermometer broke I collected the mercury to play with (20 or more times a CFL’s mercury) and decades later I’m still perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine perf

Apparently, you were exposed to the vapors. Good luck with, well, whatever you do...

[IIntense]

As a kid, I also played with the mercury from broken thermometers. Fascinating, and cheap, too!---as were most of the ways we entertained ourselves.

I may not be as "perfectly fine" as you are but I'm still here!