HAPPY EASTER!! NOW GO COLOR YOUR EGGS INSTEAD OF BUYING THEM ALREADY COLORED!!!!!
How Wasteful the Older Generation Was ...
In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag 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 clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment."
He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, they returned their 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 they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.
In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine
Every time they had to go two blocks.
But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.
Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have the throw-away kind. They 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 old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her day.
Back then, they 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 hankerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for you.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then.
They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But they 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 rode the school bus instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they 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 the old folks were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?
Yes mam, how many of the lazy kids do you see, playing outside. Riding their bikes, tricycles, scooters, their little red wagons, playing in their sand boxes, tree houses. Playing and fishing down at the creek. Hell, you don't see kid outside anymore, except waiting for the school bus to carry their big butts to school. You sure don't see them outside working, mowing the grass, raking, nothing. :yes:
Yep, just sitting on their ass, texting, blowing their ears out with the ear phones from their I-Pod and playing video games Face Booking and Tweeting all at the same time. Big fat lazy kids. Wondering what the parents are going to do for them next. :biggrin:
There is a lot of young people on the Zone. But I remember 65 years ago how we would color the eggs and mom and dad would hid them and we would hunt them.
But it is funny how when we bought the eggs they were unrefrigerated. Mom would boil them we would color them and since there were a lot. We would put them in a bowl and set them on the table unrefrigerated for a week while we ate them and nobody got sick. Today that would be amazing, we would all go to the hospital. :wink: :smile:
Darn Troll hate to say it but I have to agree with you on something. :o
Quote from: me on April 23, 2011, 10:43:39 AM
Darn Troll hate to say it but I have to agree with you on something. :o
I will say thank you for that one. I now know that there is more old farts here than just the old Troll. :salute: :tiphat:
Quote from: The Troll on April 23, 2011, 11:34:31 AM
I will say thank you for that one. I now know that there is more old farts here than just the old Troll. :salute: :tiphat:
Yep, I B 1 2.....hehehe
You two don't sound any different than the old people talking about your generation or mine. :wink:
And one day you too will be doing the same thing. :biggrin: :razz:
Quote from: me on April 23, 2011, 01:23:48 PM
Yep, I B 1 2.....hehehe
Oh crap. . . for a second there I thought you two were playin BINGO! :eek:
I hope not. I'd like to think I've learned something from my ancestors. :razz: :biggrin:
But you're probably right. :yes:
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on April 24, 2011, 01:35:49 PM
I hope not. I'd like to think I've learned something from my ancestors. :razz: :biggrin:
But you're probably right. :yes:
Well us old people didn't have something that has ruined a whole lot of young people. "ME" and me did have one until we had some age on us. What is it? CREDIT CARDS AND EASY CREDIT. :yes: If you didn't have the money you didn't but it. :yes: :smile: or a radio with head phones so we could blow out our brains and ear drums. :yes: :biggrin:
Quote from: The Troll on April 24, 2011, 02:23:30 PM
Well us old people didn't have something that has ruined a whole lot of young people. "ME" and me did have one until we had some age on us. What is it? CREDIT CARDS AND EASY CREDIT. :yes: If you didn't have the money you didn't but it. :yes: :smile: or a radio with head phones so we could blow out our brains and ear drums. :yes: :biggrin:
Don't know about you but I did have a little battery operated radio that picked up a few stations, Randy's Record Rack in Tn was one of them, and I had a little ear plug type thing I could slip into my ear and listen to the radio at night and mom and dad had no clue. :biggrin:
I had a Walkman that I listened to at night and my daughter had an Mp3. I wonder what my grandkids will have. :spooked: