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1. We  didn't have the green thing back then  (DickT-W0RAA)


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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:03:56 -0600
From: "DickT-W0RAA"  <dickt at w0raa.com>
Subject: [PPRAANet] We didn't have the green thing  back then
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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 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 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?

Please forward this on to  another selfish old person who needs a lesson in 
conservation from a  smartass young  person.



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