THEY MESSES WITH THE WRONG GENERATION

In the supermarket checkout line, the cashier tells an elderly gentleman that he should bring his own bag, since plastic bags aren’t good for the environment.

The man apologizes and explains, “There wasn’t this green movement in my day.”

The cashier replies, “That’s our problem now. Your generation didn’t take enough care to protect the environment.”

She’s right, the man says: our generation didn’t have this green movement back then:

• Back then, milk, soda, and beer bottles were returned and sent back to the manufacturer to be washed and sterilized before being refilled, so the same bottles could be used again and again. That’s how they were truly recycled.
• We took the stairs, because there weren’t escalators in every store or office, so electricity was conserved.
• We walked to stores instead of driving 300-horsepower cars every time we needed to go 10 blocks.
• Back then, we washed babies’ diapers because there were no disposables.
• We dried our clothes on a line, not in electric dryers. Solar and wind power actually dried our clothes.
• We had one television or radio in the house, not a television in every room.
• In the kitchen, we ground food in a mortar and beat it by hand because there were no electric machines to do it for us.
• When we packed something fragile to send in the mail, we used crumpled old newspapers to protect it, not bubble wrap.
• We didn’t use electric lawnmowers back then; we used a hand-powered mower.
• We exercised by working, so we didn’t need to go to a gym to run on electric treadmills. – We drank straight from the tap or from a glass when we were thirsty, instead of using small cups or plastic bottles every time we needed water.
• We changed our razor blades instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade was dull.
• Back then, kids rode their bikes to school or walked, instead of using their mom or dad as a taxi.
• We had one outlet in each room, not several power strips to run a dozen devices.
• And we didn’t need an electronic device to receive signals from satellites thousands of miles away in space to find the nearest pizzeria.
• We used landline phones, and there was only one for every ten houses. Today, you have ten per house, and when you throw them away, the batteries pollute the soil and thousands of liters of water. So it seems logical to me that the current generation constantly complains about how IRRESPONSIBLE we older folks were for not having this green trend back in our day.
  Be sure to send this to another “older” person who’s fed up with getting ecology lectures from every know-it-all in this new generation…

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