Very cute but what does it have to do with Boxers? Just saying...
--- In boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com, Lisa Wiser <lawiser@...> wrote:
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> The "green thing".....
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> Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older
> woman,
> that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't
> good for the environment.
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> The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing
> back
> in my earlier days."
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> The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your
> generation did
> not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
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> She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
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> 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!
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> But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
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> 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 book 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.
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> But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
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> 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.
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> But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
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> 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.
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> But that young lady is right;
> we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
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> 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.
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> But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
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> 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.
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> But we didn't have the green thing back then.
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> 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. 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.
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> 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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> Please forward this on to another selfish old person
> who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person...
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> We don't like being old in the first place,
> so it doesn't take much to piss us off. :-)
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