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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 28 2016, 10:27 PM (769 Views) | |
| Mr. Tik | Apr 28 2016, 10:27 PM Post #1 |
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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, "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." The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: 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 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 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 blade in a r azor 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 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 ass 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 smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205654005651772&set=a.3725686863080.2134847.1303159389&type=3&theater |
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You may be a conservative republican..if you are pro life until you get your mistress knocked up | |
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| Drudge X | Apr 29 2016, 12:53 AM Post #2 |
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I love the outcome whenever these young and smart ass wannabes try to lecture older people about life. I remembered a time when my brother lectured my dad about motor oil grade. He insisted that different grade can prolong car's longevity. My dad it's a marketing gimmick. That smart thought he knew all about motor oil. All my dad said was, "son, I've been driving a car for more than 35 years." My brother shut up immediately. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| Robert Stout | Apr 29 2016, 01:08 AM Post #3 |
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I remember when motor oil was filtered and recycled, the phone was on a party line, coins were made with silver, milk was delivered by horse cart, there was no TVs, no plastics were used in building cars, ice cream did not have small air bubbles, and a nice house cost $5,000....These memories probably qualify me to see a death panel................
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| edro14 | Apr 29 2016, 01:27 PM Post #4 |
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I remember when the tallest building in Phoenix Arizona was the Westward Ho Hotel on Central and Van Buren. and the population was 103,078 |
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| 70-101 | Apr 29 2016, 01:41 PM Post #5 |
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I remember when TV only had six channels - and when UHF became available in the Maryland suburbs in 67 we'd thought we died and went to heaven because he had three more channels. |
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| edro14 | May 1 2016, 09:59 AM Post #6 |
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Remember when gasoline was leaded and it cost .35 cents a gallon and soda pop was a dime? |
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| Member013 | May 1 2016, 10:17 AM Post #7 |
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Remember when Blacks and womenfolk knew their place and homosexuals stayed in the closet? |
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| Robert Stout | May 1 2016, 11:04 AM Post #8 |
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I remember when Amos and Andy was not banned from TV, women stayed home and took care of the house and children, and Liberace was straight...........
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Attaburnsinhell | May 1 2016, 08:01 PM Post #9 |
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Actually we wasted a lot of energy in the old days. Gas was cheap, cars got 8mpg. It was the OPEC oil crisis that got our heads right about energy conservation, alongvwith the Clean air act and the creation of the EPA.... under Nixon |
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| Robert Stout | May 2 2016, 01:27 AM Post #10 |
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The Clean Air Act wasted the most energy, but one could finally breath and stop crying in LA.................
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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