Sniper-T
11-25-2011, 11:56 AM
via email... and Oh, so true!!
The Green Thing
>>
>> In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should
>> bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the
>> environment.
>>
>> The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green
>> thing back in my day."
>>
>> The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not
>> care enough to save our environment."
>>
>> He 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.
>>
>> 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 the
>> clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters,
>> not always brand-new clothing,
>>
>> But that old 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 a wadded up
>> old newspaper 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 the 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 streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes
>> to school or walked instead of turning their moms 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 2,000 miles 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?
>>
>> To recycle this email, forward it to another person old enough to
>> remember before we had the green thing.
The Green Thing
>>
>> In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should
>> bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the
>> environment.
>>
>> The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green
>> thing back in my day."
>>
>> The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not
>> care enough to save our environment."
>>
>> He 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.
>>
>> 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 the
>> clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters,
>> not always brand-new clothing,
>>
>> But that old 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 a wadded up
>> old newspaper 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 the 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 streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes
>> to school or walked instead of turning their moms 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 2,000 miles 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?
>>
>> To recycle this email, forward it to another person old enough to
>> remember before we had the green thing.