switch to coke or Pepsi problem solved,

Reading this thread?

Just rammed my toes on a chair. I think I may have broken a toe. It hurts like the dickens and is turning nice colors.

Were you leaving or entering the café?

Strategically placed toys that are not picked up the night before. I love kicking a book or stepping on a Barbie trying to walk though the house in the dark.

I would gladly step on Barbie, now a lego block

I made up the rule that if I step on it, the toy goes in the garbage. The next night, no toys were left out.

You know what hurts? Trying to sit down in a plane seat and catching the arm rest in your leg. Small planes are so awkward.

Wow QCL! So harsh! Retributive punishment doesn't work you know. Your kids will be warped for life.

We had the same rule when our two sons were young. If they're warped they keep it concealed pretty well.

I don't think QCL's daughter will be warped for life.

oh, I think it's possible

if someone threw out my stuff I may go off the deep end, seek vengence and possibly change my name

but that's just me, I'm probably a bit warped to begin with

you know what hurts...stepping on a grass burr. Instantly paralyzes me. Only to be followed by the sting of having to pull the sticker out of my foot. I hate those things!

Just saying, the stubbed toe from yesterday hurts like the dickens. And it is now the almost the color of my polish. Ouch!

I just clipped my hip on the corner of my desk. That'll be a bruise by morning.

I have done this, multiple times, plus on my footboard of my bed. Makes for some nice markings!

Speaking of grass burrs, does anyone remember Merthiolate? The terror of the pre-school crowd when I was that young. I remember getting the odd scrap, stick, or cut and going through the excruciating ritual of having the injury painted with Merthiolate. Might as well have been a hot branding iron, the mercury-laden stuff was so miserable. Curiously, it did seem to promote healing.

We still have some in the medicine cabinet low these many years after it's banning. My wife thinks its great on fever blisters, mercury content be hanged.

Hubby calls it monkey blood. I just call it pure lava. I would hide cat scratches from my parents for fear of the merthiolate.

Oh, man! Merthiolate was of the devil, I swear!! I used to get cuts on my feet from running around barefoot and having sensitive skin. I distinctly remember sitting on my dad's lap with his arms around me and mom putting some of that stuff on a cut on my toe then blowing on it to take the sting out. I was about 5 or 6. I'd take a wooden spoon to the backside over merthiolate anyday!! Yes, I got spanked occasionally and had my parents use that stuff on my cuts, but I turned out alright! Oh, wait, I'm in Compliance!!

Well, there you are! Spankings with wooden spoons! Pouring Merthiolate into wounds!

No wonder you ended up in compliance. You're warped for sure.

The country would be better off and compliance might not be so burdensome today if more parents had treated their kids to spankings, tossed toys, and Merthiolate.

My mom had that rule too. One time my cousins and I believed the toys were gone, so they held me by the ankles upside down in the trash barrel so I could look for them. We got caught.

Thanks.

Is this the same as Mercurochrome?

Mercurochrome replaced Merthiolate (at least in my house)when the determined that Merthiolate was considered a health hazard. but a few years later the found that putting metal (chrome part) in an open wound was not a good idea

Merthiolate burned more than Mercurochrome (I do not remember it burning)

http://www.amazon.com/6pk-Merthiolate-Tincture-Antiseptic-Cruz/dp/B00371R8I6

The still sell the stuff


Mercurochrome also contained mercury