The following story has been circulating the internet for months, if not years. I think we can all relate to it\u2026<\/p>\n
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, \u201cWe didn\u2019t have this \u2018green thing\u2019 back in my earlier days.\u201d<\/p>\n
The young clerk responded, \u201cThat\u2019s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The older lady said that she was right \u2014 our generation didn\u2019t have the \u201cgreen thing\u201d in its day. The older lady went on to explain:<\/p>\n
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\u2019t have the \u201cgreen thing\u201d back in our day.<\/p>\n
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 school books. 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\u2019t do the \u201cgreen thing\u201d back then.<\/p>\n
We walked up stairs because we didn\u2019t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn\u2019t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.<\/p>\n
But she was right. We didn\u2019t have the \u201cgreen thing\u201d in our day.<\/p>\n
Back then we washed the baby\u2019s diapers because we didn\u2019t have the throw away 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.<\/p>\n
But that young lady is right; we didn\u2019t have the \u201cgreen thing\u201d back in our day.<\/p>\n
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house \u2014 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\u2019t 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\u2019t 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\u2019t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.<\/p>\n
But she\u2019s right; we didn\u2019t have the \u201cgreen thing\u201d back then.<\/p>\n
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 blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.<\/p>\n
But we didn\u2019t have the \u201cgreen thing\u201d back then.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the \u201cgreen thing.\u201d We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn\u2019t 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
But isn\u2019t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn\u2019t have the \u201cgreen thing\u201d back then?<\/p>\n
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t like being old in the first place, so it doesn\u2019t take much to piss us off\u2026 Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can\u2019t make change without the cash register telling them how much.<\/p>\n
Honestly, I think we all turned out just fine
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