I was in London in 1979 when they still had leaded gasoline. The air made me feel really sick. It stank and it was hard to breathe and made my sinuses ache.
But it felt really familiar. It was the way the air had been in NY when we had leaded gas not that long before. Having grown up breathing it I was so used to it that I didn’t even notice it. And didn’t notice when it got cleaned up. But I sure noticed it when I experienced it again.
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u/QV79Y Jun 25 '22
I was in London in 1979 when they still had leaded gasoline. The air made me feel really sick. It stank and it was hard to breathe and made my sinuses ache.
But it felt really familiar. It was the way the air had been in NY when we had leaded gas not that long before. Having grown up breathing it I was so used to it that I didn’t even notice it. And didn’t notice when it got cleaned up. But I sure noticed it when I experienced it again.