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On a humorous note:

You got to love this one. Because it's the Truth

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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.
> 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 smartass young person.
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> Remember: Don't make old People mad.
> We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.