The Binghamton Star-Gazette reports that visitors to the Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, this past Monday may have been dusted with lead. The dust came from a glass factory next door, which was ripping out a melting tank. Visitors to the museum have been urged to “thoroughly wash their hair and body and to wash the clothing and shoes they wore to remove any dust particles that may have settled on them.”
Lead is no lightweight in the hierarchy of toxic time bombs. But a story like this makes us wonder what, ultimately, will result from all of all of the exotic fumes and secretions that we — and other devoted alternative tourists — have been exposed to over the years. Radon mines, rooms bathed in ultraviolet light, toxic fountain spray, asbestos motels, specimens preserved in arsenic… the list goes on.
Perhaps the effect has been vaccinal. We may be the first generation to benefit from prolonged exposure to road trip effluvia! If you’ve noticed yourself developing any special powers or lumps, let us know.
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