Author Topic: The Green Thing
Bonzoboy1 
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Subject: The Green Thing
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. 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 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

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?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young people


We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.

 

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Its all BS. Look at all the garbage from packaging. That is where most of the garbage comes from not plastic or paper bags. What a joke

I generate a good amount of garbage and Im a single guy. I cant imagine how much a good sized family generates

Packaging

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I use paper bags

did the thing with the school books when I was young and our kids still do.

I always take the stairs if I can, which is very usual.

I do not own a car, I walk or use the mass transit which is green. - biking and walking to work has gone up exponentially the last years since it's healthier and generally less costly and about as fast.

My heating and electrics is all powered by green power, my stove uses natural gas which derives from the compost I generate ie: I place everything that can be broken down in a different bag and send it down a different chute.. I have solar and wind panels on my roof too. -every home in Sweden built since 2010 is built with extra insulation and panes of glass, production costs go up but it does neither heating or cooling in the summer.

I actually dry my clothes indoors or out on my balcony, my button downs do not like the dryer.

I go to my gym to lift weights, I usually run every morning.

I have spring water in my tap, bottled water tastes like ass compared to it.. and I have a soda stream if I want bubbles.

We have all the modernity that you guys have and we still don't uses anywhere near as much power or oil as you do and we do not create anywhere near as much waste as you, because we actually conserve and retool society towards a less wasteful way of life.

Problem with you guys is that you kept all the inept old infrastructure, did not go for mass transit and did not make changes to get people to stop driving everywhere the faults of your nation today is because you never planned for the future but instead paid for a few very costly wars..

And if you try that now you've got every conservative in the nation ready to murder his neighbor because of "DAT GREEN SOCIALISTIC MUSLIMS TERRERIST IDEOLOGY RUINING CONSTITUTION AMERRRRIIKKUUUUH!"


 

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