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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 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 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?

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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some of us still don't use a 300hp machine to go short distances. we use 400+ hp machines.

1 hour ago, 1LtCAP said:

some of us still don't use a 300hp machine to go short distances. we use 400+ hp machines.

Guilty

We didn't have wheels on our suitcases either. I'll never know why that took so long to figure out.

11 minutes ago, Handyman said:

We didn't have wheels on our suitcases either. I'll never know why that took so long to figure out.

It only took less than a decade to realize that four wheels on a suitcase makes more sense than just two wheels......  That is accelerated progress!

or ya could just carry the dam thing.

1 hour ago, AVB-AMG said:

It only took less than a decade to realize that four wheels on a suitcase makes more sense than just two wheels......  That is accelerated progress!

In the 1950s we were promised flying cars by now. I am bitterly disappointed.

9 hours ago, Handyman said:

In the 1950s we were promised flying cars by now. I am bitterly disappointed.

as a private pilot i feel i can safely say......thank GOD we don't have flying cars.

11 hours ago, 1LtCAP said:

or ya could just carry the dam thing.

Tell that to my back surgeon, I'm the type of person that resists allot of new technology but wheels on luggage was a great idea. 

I'd be satisfied with these...

 

don't we already have a non-street legal version of those? called a hovercraft?

And we didn't have to spend a fortune on buying multiple removable magazines for each of our handguns.

don't we already have a non-street legal version of those? called a hovercraft?

Nope, these use Maglev technology. Did ya watch it? [emoji848][emoji51]


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GOT HALFWAY through it

I’m entitled to a flying car...