A young clerk gives an old lady a hard time about the environment.
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Checking out at the store, 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?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart **** young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... Especially from a smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.
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?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart **** young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... Especially from a smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.
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I can relate to 99% of this. Maybe even add in at the end also can't tell time w/o a digital readout.Yep, my name really is Bob.
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Our games and toys were made out of wood and metal…not plastic
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All I will say is plastic started to become widely used in the 60s and 70s.
The world made a decision 50 to 60 years ago to use plastics more and more. No millennials or gen z or such was around. It is not like the clerk at the super market fresh out of high school demanded these plastic products.
I'm not saying the op is right or wrong or anyone is the blame. I personally like plastic for some products.
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THIS ^^^Especially from a smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.
I love it when kids pull out their $1000 iphone to use the caculator function to figure out how much change to give you back. I let them go on then calmly look at them an say whatever the change should be, like so did the phone tell you the correct change was $6.79 ? They usually look astonished and and ask "how you figure that out so fast" ? I just shake my head and leave......... Kids these days! -
VERY well said...Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me
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I gotta beg to differ on the TV thing, though.
When I was a kid, we had a 13 inch RCA TV that was black and white. We upgraded when my dad bought a new RCA TV from the company store. It was a 27 inch, 200 pound, radiation cannon and it was the sweetest thing I ever saw back in 1985.
In fact, it was one of these and looked like the one on the right:
Both of those TVs had higher amperage ratings on them than my Sony Bravia XBR-65X810C
The LCD screen with the LED back lighting has a lot to do with that and the fact that I don't use the TV's audio system means the TV pulls down less than 5 amps. In fact, the TV's total power usage when in use is no more than 225 watts. Less when you're not driving the internal audio amplifier circuits.
Those old cathode ray tube TVs were certainly indestructible and you could get a really nice picture on them but they were power hogs. The 13 inch TV used about the same power as the giant Sony but the 27 inch RCA would use almost twice as much power as the 65 inch Sony.
So, honestly, I'll take the power-miserly, huge screen LCD TV over that old, power-hungry, 27 inch radiation cannon any day.
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We burn way more electricity with modern TV's, when CRT TV's were around every bar didn't have 30 or more TV's, these things are everywhere now.
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I remember sub $2/gal gas just 2 years ago.
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I never used a microwave oven until I got my own place 42+ years ago. Back when cable TV was this unit that set on the console TV (the one with clicker remote, remember) & you would have to get up & use your finger to change channels. Yes the one with 3 rows /12-15 channels per row.. Back when MTV was kick a$$ with The Sweet & no Kardasian or whatever that crap is.. You could get stoned & walk to the store & get 3 hot dogs for a buck.. oh I miss those days..
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I remember going with my Dad on Saturday afternoons, when I was ten years old (1965), to a neighborhood tavern to watch the major league baseball game of the week on color TV. There was one TV and a bar counter of guys on stools lined up watching it. Another plus was the air-conditioning was real cold, so was the beer. Being a kid, I was given plenty of pop and snacks.
I think the folks bought their first color TV around 1969, a 23" RCA.
No need to hurry and buy one until the old black and white Philco gave out.
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Yep, lots of memories being stirred up here, like when almost all stores were closed on Sundays.Yep, my name really is Bob.
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Yep, lots of memories being stirred up here, like when almost all stores were closed on Sundays.
As it should be...not just for Church, but for family and a day of peace no matter how you spend the time.
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All I will say is plastic started to become widely used in the 60s and 70s.
The world made a decision 50 to 60 years ago to use plastics more and more. No millennials or gen z or such was around. It is not like the clerk at the super market fresh out of high school demanded these plastic products.
I'm not saying the op is right or wrong or anyone is the blame. I personally like plastic for some products.
Yes, and planned obsolescence started in the 50s. Basically we came back from war and had all these freshly built factories and needed something to make in them, so we invented crap that nobody really needed…a lot of it. That was the beginning of everything the OP bemoans…so don’t blame us youngins ya ole bastages!Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
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Up to about 3 years ago my uncle had a Avocado colored fridge that he bought in 1975' ish that still ran very well. He kept it as a spare in the garage for Thankgiving/ Christmas over flow items. It had run non-stop since he bought it new. The only thing he EVER had to replace was a small part that was far less than than $20. It controlled the defrost for the freezer. FTR he still has the avacado toilet, tub and sink he bought at about the same time. I remember like now everything is stainless ( which I can't stand) back then it was either avacado or harvest gold..... -
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Global warming haox , you notice how they don't call it global warming anymore. Temps are cooling in spots. All those liberal cook jobs can kiss my ****. Both my hummer and Corvette get about 10 miles to the gallon. My air conditioner goes on in April and never goes off till mid October. My class a amp stays on 24 seven. I run a 100 HP two stroke boat motor.
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I have the "proper term" for it.
Cyclic activity.
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I have the "proper term" for it.
Cyclic activity.
Tom
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Global warming haox , you notice how they don't call it global warming anymore. Temps are cooling in spots. All those liberal cook jobs can kiss my ****. Both my hummer and Corvette get about 10 miles to the gallon. My air conditioner goes on in April and never goes off till mid October. My class a amp stays on 24 seven. I run a 100 HP two stroke boat motor.
You and I would get along very well.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Personally I like it when it's warm 12 months a year. Snow sucks...
I'm with you on that, I do roofing in that stuff. -
Global warming haox , you notice how they don't call it global warming anymore. Temps are cooling in spots. All those liberal cook jobs can kiss my ****. Both my hummer and Corvette get about 10 miles to the gallon. My air conditioner goes on in April and never goes off till mid October. My class a amp stays on 24 seven. I run a 100 HP two stroke boat motor.
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Global warming haox , you notice how they don't call it global warming anymore. Temps are cooling in spots. All those liberal cook jobs can kiss my ****. Both my hummer and Corvette get about 10 miles to the gallon. My air conditioner goes on in April and never goes off till mid October. My class a amp stays on 24 seven. I run a 100 HP two stroke boat motor.
Well said! I don't recycle either, I don't do it to piss off the better 1/2's bleeding heart family. I do my part to recycle by dumping my waste oil on the neighbors encroaching weeds therefore returning it to the earth where it came from. -
A couple of issues that are rarely, if ever discussed in this conversation:
1. The cost of adaptation to rising temps is infinitely cheaper that the cost of (attempted) mitigation. Often times, mitigation and adaptation are served by the same action. Thus is the case with nuclear energy - We are adapting to the cost and scarcity(debatable) of oil by turning to an energy source for which we have a plentiful supply of fuel, AND we are mitigating the cause of warming (again, debatable) by using the carbon neutral nuclear energy.
Similarly, the cost of de-salinization plants (powered by the aforementioned nuclear energy) to provide fresh water is infinitely cheaper than trying to control global temps and make it rain.
2. The clearest path to control of a person or group of people is by controlling their food supply. The second clearest path is to control their energy supply.
3. We are not, nor do we posses the capability to "destroy the earth" - The worst we can do, is render the earth uninhabitable to the human species. in other words, we make it hotter, we die off, and the earth cools back down. We are but a blip in the cosmic history of all things, and our ability to influence anything of a grand scale is non-existent."Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow
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BINGO!!!our ability to influence anything of a grand scale is non-existent.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Yeah the change kool-aid drink.
When I am confronted by these people in San Diego I ask 2 questions.
1. I've been told for the last 30 years the ocean's are rising. so why isn't the hotel del under water? It's at the same level as when it was built over 100 years ago.
2. Why are the rich still buying homes near the coast?
I do agree with getting rid of the plastic bags. Our roads have been a lot cleaner since the ban.
When I was a kid my parents told me to turn it down. Now I'm an adult and my kids tell me to turn it down.
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