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Sunday, April 22, 2012

GOING GREEN...






IN LIGHT OF EARTH~DAY,
I THOUGHT I'D SHARE THIS E-MAIL THAT WAS SENT TO ME...











In the line at the store, the cashier
told the


older woman
that plastic


bags weren’t
good for the environment. The


woman apologized to her and


explained, “We didn’t have the green
thing


back in my day.”





That’s right, they didn’t have the
green


thing in her day. Back then,


they returned their milk bottles,
Coke bottles


and beer bottles to the


store. The store sent them back to
the plant


to be washed and


sterilized and refilled, using the
same


bottles over and over. So they


really were recycled. But they didn’t
have


the green thing back in her


day.





In her day, they walked up stairs,
because


they didn’t have an


escalator in every store and office
building.


They walked to the


grocery store and didn’t climb into a


300-horsepower machine every time


they had to go two blocks. But she’s
right.


They didn’t have the green


thing in her day.





Back then, they washed the baby’s
diapers


because they didn’t have the


throw-away kind. They dried clothes
on a line,


not in an energy


gobbling machine burning up 220 volts
– wind


and solar power really did


dry the clothes. Kids got
hand-me-down clothes


from their brothers or


sisters, not always brand-new
clothing. But


that old lady is right,


they didn’t have the green thing back
in her


day.





Back then, they 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 pizza dish, not a


screen the size of the state of
Montana. In


the kitchen, they blended


and stirred by hand because they
didn’t have


electric machines to do


everything for you. When they
packaged a


fragile item to send in the


mail, they used wadded up newspaper
to cushion


it, not Styrofoam or


plastic bubble wrap. But they didn't
have the


green thing back then.





Back then, they didn’t fire up an
engine and


burn gasoline just to cut


the lawn. They used a push mower that
ran on


human power. They


exercised by working so they didn’t
need to


go to a health club to run


on treadmills that operate on
electricity. But


she’s right, they didn’t


have the green thing back then.





They drank from a fountain when they
were


thirsty, instead of using a


cup or a plastic
bottle every time they had a


drink of water. They


refilled pens with ink, instead of
buying a


new pen, and they replaced


the razor blades in a razor
instead of


throwing away the whole razor


just because the blade got dull. But
they


didn’t have the green thing


back then.





Back then, people took the streetcar
and kids


rode their bikes to


school or rode the school bus,
instead of


turning their moms into a


24-hour taxi service. They had one
electrical


outlet in a room, not an


entire bank of sockets to power a
dozen


appliances. And they 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 that old lady is right. They
didn’t have


the green thing back in


her day.





¡HAPPY EARTH~DAY!




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