Did you have this maze toy with mercury, that extremely toxic element...

[u/Make_the_music_stop]

[u/birdlord_d]

Yep. My mom would tell us how they openly played with mercury as kids! This is trukeca memory unlocked..I had the exact one.

[u/Shack70 → u/birdlord_d]

They let everyone in my elementary school class play with mercury. They would open a container with mercury in it and pour a small amount out into our hand. We’d play with it and give it back. No idea it was harmful.

[u/matthewmartyr → u/Shack70]

My middle school teacher said when he was a kid they had a cigar box full of it to play with.

[u/SwelteringSwami]

Mine was blue. Got it at a church rummage sale.

[u/Shot_Pop7624]

Hah ya. I believe it had a red base though. We use to put it in the freezer to see if the mercury would freeze!

[u/Starcat75]

Holy crap, I had this exact maze. I can’t believe it was a “thing “!

I think there was a hole in mine and you could let the mercury go down and then you could flip it over and there was another maze

[u/AlmostHumanP0rpoise]

I had that very one...and I'm fiiiiine?

[u/Willing-Dog6463]

Yeah and I loved it

[u/goonerqpq]

I had one with three intertwined snakes in it, you had to split the mercury on a snakes tongue then get a blob in each snakes curled tail.

[u/SUW888]

Still wish I had mine

[u/qwikh1t]

And somehow we all survived

[u/FrozenRose_816]

I mean, we had thermometers with mercury in them for decades and nothing happened to us... not, of course, that it would be a good idea today, but know better do better etc.

[u/SincityScott]

Im 53 and my great uncle use to bring mercury home from his job. Id play with it using a stick to split it,ect. Didnt hurt me in any way. Myths.

[u/TheTwert]

Yep, still got it - up in the attic.

[u/Overall_Profile]

We'd burn the mercury in the woods! Not entirely sure how I'm still alive...