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Maywalk

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The Green Thing
« on: Oct 25, 2011, 06:25:02 PM »
The Green Thing
In the line at Tescos, the cashier told an older
woman that she should bring her own shopping 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 cashier 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 our day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, tizer 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 shop and office building. We
walked to the shops and didn't climb
into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had
to go just up the road.

But he 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 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 was 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 size of London.

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 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 he'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 a 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 hut.



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

 
 
 

Dottie1943

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Re: The Green Thing
« Reply #1 on: Oct 25, 2011, 06:35:24 PM »
Maisie, that is great!!! How so very true
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Maywalk

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Re: The Green Thing
« Reply #2 on: Oct 25, 2011, 07:28:42 PM »
Hi Dottie.
I have had that through on e-mail today and thought it was SO good I had to pass it on.  ;)

I hope everyone is keeping well.
I have been busy knitting various bits and pieces mainly to keep my fingers going.

I have started on the 'Buttercup' and will return it as soon as I have read it.
Quite interesting to read how he built his business up.

God Bless.
 

Hugh

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Re: The Green Thing
« Reply #3 on: Oct 25, 2011, 08:12:59 PM »
Very true Maywalk but unfair on using tesco they do their best to make you use your own bags by giving you points, every little helps. But plastic bags should be banned and replaced by paper one's which were use in our days.

Maywalk

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Re: The Green Thing
« Reply #4 on: Oct 25, 2011, 09:30:23 PM »
I just copied and pasted it Hugh and funnily enough it had this on the subject so I took it as read............... The Green Thing ['Watchdog': checked] ???

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Re: The Green Thing
« Reply #5 on: Oct 26, 2011, 10:15:30 PM »
Hello Maywalk I know you copied and pasted the item, but where ever it came from it was unfair on them picking on tesco who are doing there best to make customers use their own and giving points as a reward. I once had to fight with a large turtle while scuba diving to stop it eating a plastic bag which it thought was a jelly fish. The sooner they ban these plastic bags the better.

Dottie1943

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Re: The Green Thing
« Reply #6 on: Oct 26, 2011, 10:39:39 PM »
Hugh

I don't think anybody would just think "Tesco's" when reading this, they could have used any name  I.E. Waitrose, Sainsburys, Asda, John Lewis!!

Maisie was just putting it on because of everything else that was written after the name was used and I have to say I whole heartedly agree with it,  ;D I reuse all of my plastic shopping bags if I get caught out without my shopping bags. What do I use them for here is just a few things, Dogs poo bags whilst out walking, liners for the bathroom bins, liners for my hanging baskets, covers for my pots when raising seedlings, collecting rubbish from my immediate house area which my neighbours have dropped and not picked up, wrapping rubbish rather than buying bin bags. ;D

I always have my shopping bags in the car but also take others should I need them for the meat etc and also put the ones which I don't use in the bins supplied by the stores including Tesco's. ;)

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Re: The Green Thing
« Reply #7 on: Oct 27, 2011, 09:43:04 AM »
It takes a woman to think of all those options Dottie, you should know that! ;D ;D We always take our own shopping bags but as you say there are some things that need second wrapping but it doesn`t mean that we waste it afterwards! I try never to waste anything.  :-*
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