A sign of the times...much of the plain, old, common sense folks universally possessed has vanished.. to be replaced with new new flashes of brilliance..
THE "GREEN" THING !!
In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should
bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the
environment.
The woman apologized to her and explained, "We didn't have the green
thing back in my day."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did
not care enough to save our environment."
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SHE WAS RIGHT, that generation didn't have the "green" thing .....in its day.
Back then, they returned their 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 they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.
In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator
in every store and office building.
They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower
machine every time they had to go two blocks.
But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.
Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have the
throw-away kind.
They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning
up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always
brand-new clothing.
But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her
day.
Back then, they 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, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have
electric machines to do everything for you.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded
up old newspaper to cushion it, not polystyrene or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut
the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power.
They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to
run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then.
They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup
or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water.
They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen,
and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the
whole razor just because the blade got
dull.
But they 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 rode the school bus instead of turning their moms into a
24-hour taxi service.
They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets
to power a dozen appliances.
And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed
from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza
joint.
But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful the old
folks were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?
[I hope you GET IT, the point being that we of the older generations
didn't NEED the Green Thing, as we weren't anywhere near as WASTEFUL as the
Modern Generations are. And most of us oldies still aren't so wasteful.