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Back in my day
Topic Started: Feb 28 2014, 07:05 PM (128 Views)
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Came across this, thought I would share

The
last line is PRICELESS.



Being
Green



�Checking
out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older
woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because
plastic bags weren't good for the environment.





�The
woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green
thing' back in my earlier days."



�The
young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your
generation did not care enough to save our environment for
future generations."



�She
was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its
day.



�Back
then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to
the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed
and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles
over and over.

�So
they really were recycled.



�But
we didn't have the "green thing" back in our
day.



�Grocery
stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused
for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage
bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our
schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books
provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our
scribblings.



�Then
we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper
bags.





�But
too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back
then.

�We
walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every
store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and
didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to
go two blocks.



But
she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our
day.



Back
then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the
throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an
energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar
power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids
got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not
always brand-new clothing.

�But
that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back
in our day.



Back
then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every
room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief
(remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana
. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we
didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we
packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up
old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble
wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline
just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human
power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a
health club to run on treadmills that operate on
electricity.



�But
she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back
then.



�We
drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a
cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We
refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and
we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away
the whole razor just because the blade got dull.



�But
we didn't have the "green thing" back then.



�Back
then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their
bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a
24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which
cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one
electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to
power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized
gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles
out in space in order to find the nearest burger
joint.



�But
isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old
folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back
then?


�We
don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much
to piss us off... especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced
smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling
them how much.
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