JohnnyDos Posted January 13, 2017 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.31 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Posted January 13, 2017 How true... Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment. The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: 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. 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 books 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. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. 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 blade 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 in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the"green thing." 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. 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 smart-alec young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to tee us off... Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smart-alec who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. TBB, NumNutz, Blackbart and 6 others 9
TBB Posted January 13, 2017 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 20511 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 22519 Achievement Points: 148075 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 394 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 59 minutes ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Posted January 13, 2017 GOOD one JD -cracken- , AyaqGuyaq and JohnnyDos 3 Awards
hxtr Posted January 14, 2017 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.96 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted January 14, 2017 lol -cracken- 1
Smithers Posted January 14, 2017 Member ID: 24820 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 4 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 48 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 48 Achievement Points: 516 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/25/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 27, 2023 Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) Back in the day we didn't have NetFix or the InterWeb or Smart-Ass Phones to let me know what direction was North when it was a clear day ... We also didn't have so many crazy young people talking to themselves while walking alone ... Back in the day ... when we wanted to play football, baseball or hockey we didn't whip out our PlayStation consoles but actually went to the park to play ... I'll challenge any of them young whipper-snappers ... to a game of Shuffleboard ... C'MON !!!! Edited January 14, 2017 by Smithers -cracken- , Damage_inc-, hxtr and 1 other 4 Awards
hxtr Posted January 14, 2017 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.96 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted January 14, 2017 Back in the day we didn't have NetFix or the InterWeb or Smart-Ass Phones to let me know what direction was North when it was a clear day ... We also didn't have so many crazy young people talking to themselves while walking alone ... Back in the day ... when we wanted to play football, baseball or hockey we didn't whip out our PlayStation consoles but actually went to the park to play ... I'll challenge any of them young whipper-snappers ... to a game of Shuffleboard ... C'MON !!!! hahahahaha OK but don't beat me too bad. I am to this being over 46. -cracken- 1
Joe Canadian Posted January 15, 2017 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Posted January 15, 2017 Back in the day the husband was the bread earner and the wife would stay home doing household chores, taking care of the kids and most importantly educating and instilling family (moral) values in them. Times have changed dramatically. We are now a society where both parents are bread earners, who have to rely on strangers and the state to educate their children. We have become a society where the parents get home late at night, exhausted after a long day at work . We put our children to bed but we don't have time to have a meaningful discussion about life in general with them. We are now a society in which our kids get weapons, go to a night club, a school or a public place and kill innocent civilians just to get rid of their internal frustrations. Our kids are a lot angrier than before, the concept of "family unit" no longer exists, and personal face to face communication has been replaced by social media, Sad but true. Great post Johnny Damage_inc- and JohnnyDos 2 Awards
Damage_inc- Posted January 15, 2017 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted January 15, 2017 whats the green thing??? in my day it just smelled like pork-it was kermits finger Awards
HarryWeezer Posted January 15, 2017 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 7655 Content Per Day: 1.81 Reputation: 7232 Achievement Points: 53682 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 26 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Posted January 15, 2017 What I miss most about those days is kids playing outdoors - in back yards and in streets. We had dozens of street games. Where I was from most houses had large front porches and they were usually occupied by parents as kids played in the street. Whereas the day would be filled with sounds of kids playing outdoors, now, it's quiet. A shame that's gone forever. Blackbart and JohnnyDos 2 Awards
Damage_inc- Posted January 15, 2017 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted January 15, 2017 it was different of course we went outside to explore or go to a friends house to play with there kooler toys you didnt have or to just do somethjing -we only had 7 tv channels and that got bored.I was told to go play but make sure your home at 6pm to sit at the dinner table when dad gets home.As long as they new where ya were it was kool.. Im sure if we had video games earlier we would be no different then the kids now .Its just the way things change with technology- Awards
Smithers Posted January 15, 2017 Member ID: 24820 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 4 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 48 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 48 Achievement Points: 516 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/25/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 27, 2023 Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) In New York, we had a parking lot full of rocks and we'd play baseball on it. The local high school baseball field was actually in worse condition, if you can believe that. We'd play self-hit and playing the infield was a challenge since the ball would always take wicked hops if hit hard (sometimes come up to your face). We'd play on that surface and later on my buddies played on their high school/college teams they got so good at fielding balls ... Sliding was encouraged ... Edited January 15, 2017 by Smithers Awards
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