The Green thing

[Sniper-T]

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.

[eagle326]

Okay!!!! Who the Hell told you how old I was?

Izzy ; I have a mission for you. ;)

[izzyscout21]

I'm listening.......er......reading

[Stg1swret]

Thanks for the memories, geez am i really that old. i sure don't feel like it.

[bacpacker]

Same here. I remember collecting coke bottles folks would toss out of the car and cashing them in. Walked to school everyday until high school. Good old days for sure.

[eagle326]

Izzy
Your mission should you accept.
1- Restore opsec for us gray panthers or gray men; Your call as to what we are.
2- Dis-information campaign as to our existence
3- Choose your best qualified team ; max 6 members
4- Time limit none ; Just complete mission
5- Use whatever tactics necessary

If you complete mission ; I see chickens in your future. ;)

[Conscious]

OP: that was excellent. I enjoy reminders like these. But we should be aware that the trials and tribulations of the days of yore were what caused the griping and groaning for convenience and instant gratification. Had everyone been able to be happy with all the work involved, we'd never had started 'designing for the dump', and we'd never have gotten as careless as we did, which is why we need "The Green Thing" nowadays. because we've gotten lazy and we need socio-cultural indoctrination to help us along.

[eagle326]

Oh great. The mad genius strikes again.
I was going to use old farts; crumudgens ;old fogies; senile brigade ; Soc. Sec. platoon.But thought I stay in the gray realm and make a little play on words .
Got to be careful what I write . HE'S everywhere and watching every key I type. Now I'll just be paranoid gray. He's everywhere; He's everywhere.