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- We greybeards have destroyed the planet - oh, the shame !!!!
- Checking out at the supermarket, 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 apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green
- Thing back in my earlier days."
- The young cashier 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, lemonade bottles and beer
- Bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed
- And sterilised 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 shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-
- Used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for
- Rubbish, 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 personalise 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 a lift in every
- Supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and
- Didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half
- A mile.
- But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
- Back then, we washed the baby's Terry Towel nappies because we didn't
- Have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-
- Gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts wind and solar power really did
- Dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had 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 radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every
- Room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief
- (remember them?), not a screen the size of Scotland.
- 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
- Petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the 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 tap or 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 bus and kids rode their bikes to school or
- Walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the
- family's £25,000 People Carrier which cost the same as 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites
- 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pub!
- 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 arse 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 smartarse
- Who can't work out the change without the cash register telling them
- How much it is!
- Here endeth the bloody lesson!
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