STANDING AT THE TILL IN THE SUPERMARKET, THE YOUNG FEMALE CASHIER SUGGESTED TO A 66 YEAR-OLD WOMAN THAT SHE SHOULD BRING HER OWN GROCERY BAGS BECAUSE PLASTIC BAGS WERENT GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. THE WOMAN AGREED, AND EXPLAINED, WE DIDNT HAVE THIS PROBLEM BACK IN MY YOUNGER DAYS. THE YOUNG CLERK RESPONDED, THATS OUR PROBLEM TODAY. YOUR GENERATION WEREN’T ‘GREEN’, SO YOU DIDN’T CARE ENOUGH TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. SHE WAS RIGHT — WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, OUR GENERATION DIDNT HAVE THE GREEN THING IN THOSE DAYS. 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 STERILISED AND THEN REFILLED, SO IT COULD USE THE SAME BOTTLES OVER AND OVER AGAIN. BUT WE DIDNT HAVE THE GREEN THING BACK IN OUR DAY. GROCERY STORES BAGGED OUR GROCERIES IN BROWN PAPER BAGS WHICH WE REUSED FOR NUMEROUS THINGS. MOST MEMORABLE BESIDE 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 SCRIBBLINGS. THEN WE WERE ABLE TO PERSONALISE OUR BOOKS ON THE BROWN PAPER BAG COVERS. BUT TOO BAD WE DIDNT DO THE GREEN THING BACK THEN. WE WALKED UP STAIRS, BECAUSE WE DIDNT HAVE AN ESCALATOR IN EVERY STORE AND OFFICE BUILDING. WE WALKED TO THE GROCERY STORE AND DIDNT CLIMB INTO A 300-HORSEPOWER MACHINE EVERY TIME WE HAD TO GO TWO BLOCKS. BUT SHE WAS RIGHT. WE DIDNT HAVE THE GREEN THING IN OUR DAY. BACK THEN, WE WASHED THE BABYS NAPPIES BECAUSE WE DIDNT HAVE THE THROWAWAY KIND. WE DRIED CLOTHES ON A LINE, NOT IN AN ENERGY-GOBBLING MACHINE BURNING UP LOTS OF POWER -- 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 DIDNT HAVE THE GREEN THING BACK IN OUR DAY. BACK THEN, WE HAD ONLY ONE TV AND/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 WALES. IN THE KITCHEN, WE CHOPPED, BLENDED AND STIRRED BY HAND BECAUSE WE DIDNT HAVE ELECTRIC MACHINES TO DO EVERYTHING FOR US. WHEN WE PACKED A FRAGILE ITEM TO SEND BY POST, WE USED WADDED-UP OLD NEWSPAPERS TO CUSHION IT, NOT STYROFOAM OR PLASTIC BUBBLE-WRAP. BACK THEN, WE DIDNT 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 DIDNT NEED TO GO TO A HEALTH CLUB TO RUN ON TREADMILLS THAT OPERATE ON ELECTRICITY. BUT SHES RIGHT; WE DIDNT 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 DIDNT HAVE THE GREEN THING BACK THEN. BACK THEN, PEOPLE TOOK A BUS AND KIDS RODE THEIR BIKES TO SCHOOL OR WALKED, INSTEAD OF TURNING THEIR MUMS INTO A 24-HOUR TAXI-SERVICE IN THE FAMILYS £71,000 4-WHEEL DRIVE CHELSEA TRACTOR, WHICH COST SEVENTEEN TIMES 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 DIDNT NEED A COMPUTERISED GADGET TO RECEIVE A SIGNAL BEAMED FROM SATELLITES 23,000 MILES OUT IN SPACE IN ORDER TO FIND THE NEAREST BURGER-BAR. BUT THE CURRENT GENERATION COMPLAINS ABOUT HOW WASTEFUL WE OLD FOLKS WERE, BECAUSE WE DIDNT HAVE THE GREEN THING BACK THEN !!! PLEASE FORWARD THIS ON TO ANOTHER SELFISH OLD GIT WHO NEEDS A LESSON IN CONSERVATION. ESPECIALLY FROM A TATTOOED, MULTIPLE-PIERCED bright spark WHO CANT GIVE US CHANGE WITHOUT THE CASH-REGISTER TELLING HER HOW MUCH!!!
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 06:00:53 +0000
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