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    The Green Thing

    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 ?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 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?

    Tell this 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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    Haha good read, bet the old biddies would have happily lived in the throw away society that GB has lived in for the past few decades, on the plus side the youth of today and they're ignorance is doing no damage to the environment plus they are being taught how to be more environmentally friendly, so it's a sort of win win situation

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