Makes you think...

[merc1_clocks]

The Green Thing!

Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because Plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today - your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised 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 shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, 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), were not defaced by our scribbling's. Then we were able to personalise 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 a lift in every supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.
But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's Terry Towel nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts. Wind and Solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had 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 radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Scotland 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 petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the 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 tap or 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 bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's £50,000 ‘People Carrier’ which cost the same as 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest Pub!
But isn't it sad that 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 smart **bleep** young person...
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to **bleep** us off...especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartarse who can't work out the change without the cash register telling them how much it is!

Here endeth the bloody lesson!

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[ed_blackadder_1]

Nice One Mercs !

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

Excellent!

The last time I ever shopped in A*da, I was lectured by a woman on  the checkout because I asked for a bag. I told her I went there for to buy something for dinner not a lecture and ended up walking out without the shopping. Unfortunately she had been indoctrinated and didn't really understand what she was on about.

Unfortunately the 'green lobby' have a lot to answe for - paying wind farm owners for not producing and huge sudsidies (how can you buy something and then sell it for way less than you are paying - you get the shortfall from the consumer - us!

Chemicals used to bleach paper for recycling are incredibly damaging to the environment.

Recycling shipped half way across the world for processing - how can that be cost effective, and it damages third world environments.

Palm oil, the farming of which is causing more losses to the rainforests than logging.

Rant over.

[petitecalicocat]

Yes thats a good one merc , be  funny if it wasnt so true 

[lhasa.two]

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@chips-and-brown-gravy wrote:

Excellent!

The last time I ever shopped in A*da, I was lectured by a woman on  the checkout because I asked for a bag. I told her I went there for to buy something for dinner not a lecture and ended up walking out without the shopping. Unfortunately she had been indoctrinated and didn't really understand what she was on about.

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Supermarket packaging is one of the biggest polluters on the planet, what a cheek she had...

It was only last year that a major supermarket named M*rr***NS was wrapping INDIVIDUAL

peppers in plastic.    They've stopped it now.

All this plastic and various other polluters came about when the EU decided to regulate food packaging, a travesty and I can't understand why the supermarkets went along with it.

[calibra101]

I love it  and so very true

[fishpieface]

That's great Merc, and very true.

Our family is quite environmentally aware and we do try to do our bit,

but we are all still guilty of some of the above.

There is somebody in our road who gets her car out every morning to

take her 14 yr old son a five minute walk to school, and goes and picks him up.

Not only does this add to congestion around the school but it is so unnecessary.

I only ever give my boy a lift if he's got ridiculous amounts of stuff to carry, which

isn't more than perhaps once a term, and even then he usually prefers to walk

and carry it all.