I remember getting iodine!!!
That was the biggest fear of getting cut at my grandparent's house: grandpa running for the iodine!
when you need a ladder to fill 'r up, where you used to simply stand on the front axle drive shaft...
This stuff didn't sting, you're thinking of Merthiolate, which was red and really burned.
You're sure right about Merthiolate! That stuff burns like fire, so it must be good
Agree. Merthiolate stung, not mercurochrome. Merthiolate was also good for removing skin tags. Dried them up and they would drop off.
That was my childhood, actually. My grandmother was the youngest of a very large family, one of 22 kids, 11 naturally-born and another 11 foster siblings. When that group reached their 80's, between each sibling and their respective spouse's, it felt like I'd damn near taken up residency at the family funeral home. The annual family reunion attendance was quartered in a decade.
We've lost 3 sets of our friend's parents in the past 2 years. My mother in law is the last of them alive. She's about 12 years younger than all of them, but still, 85 and not doing so great.
My 98 year old grandma told me a few weeks before she passed that when her husband and friends were all passing away, she wasn't ready to go.... but now she's ready. But her body just won't quit. "The doctor told me I have the heart of a 70 year old" was one quote from her I'll never forget.
When our kids were small, we'd just go out in the yard and slobber down some watermelon slices and let them spit the seeds all over the lawn. Many a stray watermelon plant would sprout.Do you have to be old to remember watermelon seed spittong contests? Now they are all quasi seedless, with just those little white seeds. It was all in fun but somebody must have lost an eye.
