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MADDOG10 — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:33:57 GMT

HI SWEETIE, HOW'S THE CIVILIZED WORLD BEEN TREATING YOU LATELY? FINE I HOPE. HUGS.!!

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jrosina — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:11:16 GMT

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sully16 — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:11:32 GMT

So very true.

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MADDOG10 — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:31:52 GMT

Amen to that rosie.. on it's way..

Original Blog Entry: "The Green thing" by my friend billy...Over 40 you can relate!

jrosina — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:16:55 GMT

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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