Friday, August 22, 2014

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Subject: Something to  think about!

 

Checking    out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that  she    should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for    the environment. 

 

The woman apologized to   the   young    girl   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."

 

The older lady said that she was    right -- our generation didn't have the "green  thing" in its day. The    older lady went on to explain:  

 

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 school    books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use    by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling. 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 throw away kind.  We dried    clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220volts. 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 blade 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?

 

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who    needs a lesson in conservation  from a smart a$$ young    person.  

 

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

 

 

 

 

 


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