\nChecking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to
\n\tthe much older woman, that she should bring her own
\n\tgrocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.<\/p>\n
\tThe woman apologized and explained, ";We didn’t have this;green thing’ back in my earlier days."<\/p>\n
\tThe young clerk responded, "That’s our problem today.<\/p>\n
\tYour generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."<\/p>\n
\tShe was right–our generation didn’t have the ‘green thing’ in its day.<\/p>\n
\tBack then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store.
\n\tThe store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.<\/p>\n
\tSo they really were recycled.<\/p>\n
\tBut we didn’t have the "green thing" back in our day.<\/p>\n
\tGrocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags,
\n\tthat we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides
\n\thousehold garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for
\n\tour schoolbooks.
\n\tThis was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling.<\/p>\n
\tThen we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.<\/p>\n
\tBut too bad we didn’t do the "green thing" back then.<\/p>\n
\tWe walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building.
\n\tWe walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a
\n\t300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.<\/p>\n
\tBut she was right. We didn’t have the "green thing" in our day.<\/p>\n
\tBack then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throwaway kind.<\/p>\n
\tWe 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.<\/p>\n
\tKids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.<\/p>\n
\tBut that young lady is right; we didn’t have the "green thing" back in our day.<\/p>\n
\tBack 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
\n\tremember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.<\/p>\n
\tIn the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us.<\/p>\n
\tWhen 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.<\/p>\n
\tBack then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. <\/p>\n
\tWe used a push mower that ran on human power.
\n\tWe exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.<\/p>\n
\tBut she’s right; we didn’t have the "green thing" back then.<\/p>\n
\tWe 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.<\/p>\n
\tWe 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.<\/p>\n
\tBut we didn’t have the "green thing" back then.<\/p>\n
\tBack 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."<\/p>\n
\tWe 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.<\/p>\n
\t 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?<\/p>\n
\n\tWe 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.<\/p>\n
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