FOW- GREEN MONSTER

Take a look at things before the religion of "Green" started, very interesting not to mention true (more than say 6 or 7 times)


Subject: 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.
>
>
> 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.

The generations of today have become such cruds, the younger seems to spawn the crudier, (is that a word ??, oh well you get the picture