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The Green Thing...


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A PC parable on "greenness"

� Checking out at the store, 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 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 schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling's.
� Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

� 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.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway 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.
� Back then, people took the 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." 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 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 smart young person...
� We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to tick us off ... especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smart person who can't make change with-out the cash register telling them how much.
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Amen That

 

Most of Commyfornia is trying to outlaw plastic bags from stores. Putting thousands more out of work. All in the name of "GREEN". The only way plastic bags leave my house is one of three ways. With garbage in it. Rolled into a ball and tied in a knot for recycling if it has a hole. But the vast majority get rolled into a ball loosely tied so they don't unroll and placed in other bags until full. When I get 10 or 12 bags of bags, I transport them to the local Salvation Army food bank so they can be reused to provide food for families in need of assistance.

 

Yes there are 2 legged pigs who use mother earth as there personal trash receptacle. But people of that bent are also the same ones who drive down the street throwing fast food bags of crap out there car windows. All the stupid "GREENIE" feel good but actually do nothing laws won't change those people.

 

They were raised that way and learned the behaviour from their parents.

 

JM2c

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