Shame on you wastefull oldies lol

[Bluesbro]

Anyone over the age of 35 should read this

Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. I apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days“.

The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations“.

She was right about one thing–our generation didn’t have the green thing in “Our” day. So what did we have back then? After some reflection and soul-searching on “Our” day, here’s what I remembered we did have….

Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop 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 repeatedly. 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 nappies because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 240 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 Wales. In the kitchen, we blended & 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 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 water 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. 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?

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Just got this of my mates F/B profile and thought I would share it with you all

Regards

Joe

[Ripple]

Brilliant and true !

Ripple.

[chris.oldgit]

Cant see to many wasteful things in the statement, back then we had paper bags for food, even biscuits were loose in a tin, and you could buy an assortment of broken ones for 3d, wrapping paper was always re-used along with string, food was generally unpacked and you bought the amount required, again put in paper bags, any food waste was put into a 'pig bin' that the farmer collected, old cadigans/jumpers were unravelled and re-used, shoes were made to last, from leather and could be repaired, not possible in 90 % of todays modern shoes, made with plastic, cheap available materials used since the early seventys, which have and are causing concerns today.
The disposable era of the times have greatly affected many peoples lives today, and will continue into the future, even our sport has drawbacks, yesteryear when lines were made from silk/ sisal etc, now its nylon, even lures were made from wood / metal. now all soft man made rubbers, the vast majority of casings to electrical units / packaging etc, are all made from petrol by products, plastic bottles are recycled into modern fleeces we wear for warmth, home furnishings and carpets as well, we may not want it, but all these products are cheap to produce, which keeps the costings down, with the worlds natural resouces costing considerably more each year, it appears that the by-products are here to stay, and so are the consequences.

I'll get me coat

[John Marshall]

Originally Posted by chris.oldgit

I'll get me coat

just sit down,you and I can boor the pants off the youngsters.