Fw: Fwd: The Green Thing

[Shawn Townsend]

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From: Steve Mang <vm...@earthlink.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 10:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: The Green Thing

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>> THE GREEN THING
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this
>> green thing back in
>> my earlier days."
>>
>> The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your
>> generation did not care
>> enough to save our environment for future generations."
>>
>> She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing
>> in its day or
>> didn't call it "green."
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 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 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 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
>> 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 prissy-tailed young person.
>>
>> Remember: Don't make old people mad.
>> We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't
>> take much to tick
>> us off.
>>
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[Bryan Foltz]

Actually, we buy our milk in glass bottles. The bottling facility and the herd of cows are close by--I'm not sure of the exact location but it's less than 50 miles away. I like supporting small local agricultural businesses when I can, even when it costs a bit more. The milk is organic, although not certified as such because of costs. The owners even raise their own feed for the cows...and they know all the cows by name (well, they claim to..).

Of course, we have to make an extra stop (out of town) to get the milk, but it's only a 10 mile drive and we're in that town every week anyway. When we miss, we just go to the local grocery store.

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