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 penwith 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 that 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 just how
> > much fricking change they owe me!!!!
> >
> > Thank You !!!
> >
> > 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 penwith 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 that 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 just how
> > much fricking change they owe me!!!!
> >
> > Thank You !!!
