That kids who grow up with new technologies are unphased and take them for granted, but marvel at old fashioned things that the elders grew up with and took for granted.

Shaken, not purred.

Maybe some non food gift, like a bouquet of flowers? Or a gift card to a local movie theater or other non food activity?

Man that wiki page is a trip, what a crazy life.

Promise?

Varies depending on the site, sometimes it’s gasoline, or solvents, or heavy metals or PFAS. As for how it happens, accidental or deliberate releases. I’ve found military documents from the 50s that say the official place to dispose of used motor oil was a pit they’d dug in the ground.

They’re also at the lowest drainage point for that whole valley. Plus, the properties of the lakebed make it so that water is very slow to soak into the ground, so it’s going to take a while for things to dry out.

That makes sense, he was really undersized compared to the rest.

Somehow, I can tolerate “jpheg” much easier than the forsaken “jif.”

It’s pretty depressing, but the fact that soil and groundwater are almost certainly contaminated anywhere that humans have touched. I’ve seen all kinds of places from gas stations, to dry cleaners, to mines, to fire stations, to military bases, to schools, to hydroelectric plants, the list could go on, and every last one of them had poison in the ground.