re: Ever wondered about glitter? There is mystery and environmental concern

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It sticks to everything and vacuum cleaners dont get it out of the carpet .

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Carpet is awful ... but ever had to get it out of a kid’s hair? Two of mine apparently participated in a “glitter bomb war” at someone else’s house. I was less than thrilled with that idea when I found out. Got a bit more pissed when I looked at their heads and saw a layer of encrusted glitter about 1/4” thick around every follicle. But I didn’t hit DEFCON-level rage until I’d spent a week scrubbing their little scalps raw with one of those horrible plastic shower brushes and STILL couldn’t get all of it off.

It was like it adhered so completely to their skin that it started to bond at the molecular level, and I’m not even kidding. Fully six months later they could turn their heads just right, and the angle of the light would reveal one more sparkly patch that I’d missed. So it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out that this export from the ninth circle of Hell has some top-secret classification as a military instrument. It’s all shiny and innocuous-looking, but yet tenacious enough to frick some shite up. Also a hell of a lot cheaper than an equivalent biological or chemical weapon.

Even now, several years later, my kids will do something particularly derpy and this little worried voice inside of me whispers, “It’s probably the glitter ....”