Posted on 05/19/2019 1:21:21 PM PDT by sodpoodle
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 apologized 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 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 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 personalize 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 £50,000 ‘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 computerized 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 are 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!
She should have to her to “Shut up and bag”
1. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
2. Nothing irks me more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest or Google Maps really need to start their directions on # 5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu-Ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection... again.
13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.
17. I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
19. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?
20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
22. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time.
23. The first testicular guard, the “Cup,” was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
(Ladies .. Quit Laughing! )
It just gets better as you get older, doesn’t it?
I was in a Starbucks Coffee recently when my stomach started rumbling and I realized that I desperately needed to fart. The place was packed, but the music was really loud so to get relief and reduce embarrassment I timed my farts to the beat of the music. After a couple of songs I started to feel much better. I finished my coffee and noticed that everyone was staring at me. I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my Ipod (with ear piece) - and how was your day?
(This is what happens when old people start using technology!)
Stop laughing and go ahead and forward this - (you know you want to)
I Would Like To Add One.
At What Point-In-Life Do We Become “OLD PEOPLE “ ??
Another fake email, although I don’t disagree with the sentiment.
Posting articles takes time and effort. I look forward to reading your first thread.
I stopped wearing a watch and found I had all the time in the world.2. Nothing irks me more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
That's when I start to argue more loudly4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
People who can't recognize sarcasm should be taken out and shot.6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
It was surely wasted. I can't read my own, so I print.7. Map Quest or Google Maps really need to start their directions on # 5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
That's called 'acting white.'10. Bad decisions make good stories.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
That would be when I first get out of bed.12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu-Ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection... again.
I wish. It's called streaming and it's here to stay.13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
Ooops15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
Hate to tell you, but mine has several. You're old, your refrigerator needn't be.17. I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
There used to be an app for that. Seriously.18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
I seldom eat until I'm full. I just get tired of chewing.19. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?
Appropriate or not, it's ONCE.
We saved our newspapers and tied them in bundles with twine. Dealers actually paid us for the papers.
And on Sunday, we went to church.
I don’t doubt it. However, the subject of your post is fake. The spam emails are quite common, though.
Those button jars annoy me. Can't throw them away just because you never know when you need a button... and you never do.
My mom removes handles off drawers before tossing the furniture. Can't get a handle on that one either.
I thought those were tomatoes, not apples. That little strawberry hanging off the side was fascinating (to me as a child) As an adult, I learned that it was to sharpen or derust needles and pins.
Back in the day we used to turn off lights when we left the room. Now we have those leave on all the time light bulbs. If you turn them of too frequently, their life span shortens.
You’re right...it was a tomato.
LOL
I always enjoy your entertaining posts. Thank you.
I’m pretty sure the first time I read through this, it was in a letter that my mom sent to me. She had received a copy from my aunt, her sister-in-law, and thought it was funny enough to have copies made and she sent it snail mail, as my aunt had sent it to her. I would be willing to bet that was in the early to mid 1990s, and not much later. Remember the typewriter? I think it may have been written with a typewriter, not a computer, but to be honest I can’t be 100% on that. However, a typewriter was an instrument that everyone I knew had one in the home, but not everybody had a computer, especially an elderly aunt, at that point in history. So maybe, just maybe, in the interim years, someone took the typewritten version, and entered it into the computer, and sent it via email. It was very nearly the same, but perhaps not exact. I definitely remember it discussing, the green thing. I love remembering how we did things when I was a kid.
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