I'm so old I Remember when:

[MROO]

It was - rolling it from hand to hand. Hmm, that may explain a lot.

Nah - The BEST part was popping it into a gazillion tiny little beads with one fingertip, then rolling it all back into one, quivering little mass ... all perfectly round. And yeah ... it does explain a lot for many of us!

EDIT - to fix an Edit!

 

[jxp]

EDIT - to fix an Edit!

I resemble that remark.

 

[kikiruru]

IDK if anyone remembers this, but when I was little you could go to a gas station, (the one with the Pegasus on it) and they would give out little plastic toy animals.

I remember the shoe store would give little boys a toy and little girls a ring or a bracelet

And a real toy would be in the Cracker Jack box

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Kinda.
Liquid elemental mercury that we played with as kids is not readily absorbed through the skin, so playing with the mercury in broken thermometers really isn't such a hazard.
Mercury is certainly not great if ingested but it takes quite high levels of exposure to be worrying, though mercury vapor is not something I would want to be around. I think I still have a tooth filling or maybe two that are old enough that they are mercury based.

I remember playing with mercury, rolling it around in my hand, squishing it, rolling it back into a ball, playing with it, watching it get smaller and smaller ... until it just ... disappeared. Yup. Absorbed into the skin. And I will say yeah, probably explains a lot.

 

[kikiruru]

Mobile Bay and mercury

 

[kikiruru]

fresh Gulf & mobile bay seafood is my favorite food

fried Flounder shrimp oysters crab claws and any other fish

I still eat captain D’s, Popeyes, etc etc etc but the best seafood restaurants are on the causeway and gulf shores

Hmmm now thinking about what y’all have said
Maybe I shouldn’t

 

[kikiruru]

I remember having to lie down to zip up pants.

Me too

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I remember when pharmacies dispensed meds in a little white paper bag and they put a lollipop in it if the meds were for a child.

 

[notabitail]

Mobile Bay and mercury

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Just a warning, don't trust these AI Overview things. They are known to be very inaccurate. I recommend you ignore them and do your own research.

 

[Rick589]

Perhaps I’m crazy, a distinct possibility, but wasn’t pay cable television commercial free when it first came around?