My cousin Georgie and I were looking through some junk in back of the house one day and we found something that we never saw before. After looking it over for a time, we decided it was hard stick candy. I pulled on it and it broke into 5 pieces. I decided to suck on a piece and see what it tasted like. It looked like it was filled with cherry juice.
So, I started to suck real hard on a 4 inch piece and my tongue turned cold and numb right away. I ran to the water pump and tried to wash the taste out of my mouth, but it stayed with me all that day.
I know now that it was a thermometer that the drug store used to give out that was about 2 feet long. I often wonder how that mercury played a part in my health through the years.
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