> ARE YOU "GOING 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 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, 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 scribbling. Then we were
> able to personalize our books on the brown bag but 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?
>
> Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in
> conservation from a smartass 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 smartass who can't
> make change without the cash register telling them how much.
>
> Stupid little shit.
>
> 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, 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 scribbling. Then we were
> able to personalize our books on the brown bag but 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?
>
> Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in
> conservation from a smartass 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 smartass who can't
> make change without the cash register telling them how much.
>
> Stupid little shit.
