My Friend Billy from my E- Commerce Business, Site Wrote This;
I believe every one over 40 and older can understand this!!!
> The Green Thing
> >
> > 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 our 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, 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?
> >
> > Please --- forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a
> > lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person.
> >
> > 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 smart ass
> > who can't make change without the cash register telling them how
> > much!!!
Billy
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