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It's fine. We're all fine. But don't let tiny kids play with mercury because, as with lead, they are the most at-risk for neurological effects 💚

We used a blowtorch to light the sparklers

We had one car that had milk crates in the back instead of seats. How the hell did I make it to 54???

Your parents had seatbelts?? My grandparents didn’t have seatbelts in the rear of the car until I was about 10. We just sat there. They also smoked like chimneys in thr car and house, despite me being asthmatic.

Late Boomer here, we always had a bucket of water to douse them. They make quite the sizzling sound.

The real reason Gen X is such a small generation.

To keep the sparklers cooler we’d sit on the hood of dad’s car while he drove on the freeway

We did.

*pshaw* You think my parents gave me those sparklers? My uncle John was *right there* ...

I'm a boomer. When I was a kid, a neighbor kid's nightgown caught fire from a sparkler. Fortunately the parents got it out quickly and she was not hurt (that I recall).

Hot enough to cauterize the cuts from playing barefoot in a backyard full of broken beer bottles. Win win!

The difference is that millenials are much more likely to be like "damn that was fucked up that our parents let us play with sparklers and lawn darts" GenX are more likely to be weird about it...

My dad sent an entire package of sparklers on fire one year. Spent the night sleeping with his hand in a frying pan of water because of the burn.

Handsome Ron would let us have sparklers 😠

I suppose bottle rocket wars and Roman Candle Duels didn’t make the safe list either?

It used to be my job to hold the M80 (in the middle of our street) while my dad lit the fuse.

Bringing back childhood memories of my annual sparkler second-degree burns 🔥 🙃 No need to ban the 🎇 as long as the parents remain sober long enough to ensure the safety of their children and fully extinguishing the glowing metal stick so no one steps on it and then doesn't get to go swimming 😬🙄🤭

uh … fairin … fehring … phere … dammit Kelvin.

Another good argument for switching to centigrade then...

And be sure to call them "appetizers" and not "hors d'oeuvres" That's a killer.

Go metric. Celsius is easier to spell, and 1100 degrees is still a lot.

no one pays attention after the first three or so letters, you're fine