up.yours Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Anyone over the age of 35 should read this, as I copied this from a friend .. Checking out at the grocery store recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I 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 about one thing -- our generation didn't have the green thing in “Our” day. So what did we have back then…? After some reflection and soul-searching on "Our" day here's what I remembered we did have.... Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop 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 repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. 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 a few hundred yards. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 240 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 Manchester. 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 wrapped 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 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 bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums 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 2,000miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza 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? regards kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slice Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 AND we used PAPER BAGS for our shopping which we then used to light a fire cos we DID NOT have central heating, OH FUCK I sound like me bleeding dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheuz Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Well I'm on the new side of 21...... And take shit as it comes myfriend, I've always recycled when I could. The human race learns, aslong as you try, its cool, but theres also going out of your way to fook the planet up and thats what I cant stand but.... plastic bags??? Man of all the lightweight shit I've heard about, did you give her the address of BP the oil company? Theres green bags... and then thers hippie on a mission, set the shop on fire........ joke of course.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator DirtyDT Posted January 10, 2012 Moderator Share Posted January 10, 2012 We didn't drive to the supermarket to get apples in a plastic bag.................... we stole them from next doors apple tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up.yours Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 times were hard then, eh , dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ttaskmaster Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I have a rucksack. I don't need shopping bags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator DirtyDT Posted January 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted January 12, 2012 times were hard then, eh , dirty. They haven't changed much either. I may have to resort to the Anthony Worrall-Thompson school of shopping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike1949 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Tescos arrested AW-T for stealing two bottles of wine and some cheese. And that's only for starters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 just read your post kev yea its funny that all the things our generation did caused global warming and yet a lot of the things they tell us to do to make things better we did in the old days? when scientists come out with all this bollox about global warming i think back to 1963 the year of the big freeze 12 weeks of freezing weather and the then scientists telling us we were entering the second ice age and the weather was going to get colder every year and in twenty to thirty years we would enter the second ice age and now its global warming,was i pissed for 30 years is that how i missed the ice age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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