07 Mar 2021 11:34:04
Nothing to do with football, but I am one of the oldies,
It's a long post but well worth the time quite amusing as well as true.

So we ARE the greens!

Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because Plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days. "

The young cashier 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, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised 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 shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. 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 personalise 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 a lift in every supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's Terry Towel nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy- gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts - wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had 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 radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them? ), not a screen the size of Scotland 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 petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the 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 tap or 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 bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's £50,000 'People Carrier' which cost the same as 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 computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest Pub!

But isn't it sad that 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 smartarse young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off. especially from a smartarse who can't work out the change without the cash register telling them how much it is! Here endeth the bloody lesson!

1.) 07 Mar 2021
07 Mar 2021 12:18:38
Very touching post Norfolk I'm middle aged when I left home and fled the nest I went into the bakers for some crusty cobs I asked for half a dozen the young girl server asked me how many is that?
This was 20 years ago, I thought at the time what do they teach them at school these days.

2.) 07 Mar 2021
07 Mar 2021 17:56:06
Oh excellent post Norfolkwolf!
That's really given me a well needed lift.
Thank you.

3.) 07 Mar 2021
07 Mar 2021 19:14:53
Nice one Phil. When I was in Navan, the Irish waitress asked what could she get me. I said just a black coffee please. She replied, with milk or without.

You can't make em up.


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4.) 07 Mar 2021
07 Mar 2021 23:34:12
Norfolkwolf I hope u said that to the lassie in question, brilliant post and so true. Phil I had a similar experience with my nephew when I was building a wall at home he was helping out, I told him I needed half a dozen blocks to finish it so off he went to the quarry where his father (my brother) works to get the blocks that I was short, I rubbish you not he came back with 5. I asked him if he told his father I wanted the half dozen in those particular words, yes he replied, I though as thick as you are kid your father is worse so what chance did he have. both man united fans aswel so I think there’s something in that lol😂😂 and I have to admit I didn’t correct him on it he’s 26 so he’s not going to learn at this stage.

5.) 07 Mar 2021
07 Mar 2021 23:49:54
Great Post Norfolk, but can you see the poor souls of today being able to survive if we had a black out from 6 each night as we did in the 70s. They havnt got the imagination to think for themselves.
Another note, wozza mate I know the pain, but if I offset the cost of the TV against travelling tickets sustenance etc it ain't too bad, and of course I've seen more games. But if your furrowed not earning it hurts. What is doing my head in is TV coverage turning into the equivalent of the panini sticker album with close ups of eg, oopsy daisy grealish on is mobile in stand when there's a kick/ throw and you rejoin the match and you don't know what's going on. We pay top dollar for directors cuts and adverts, sometimes blocking half the screen with %facts that if were able to watch we know for ourselves, but then I'm an oldie so they think I'm like them and can't work it out for myself.

6.) 08 Mar 2021
08 Mar 2021 05:51:42
Ha ha I should of answered 6 and 1/ 2
🤣🤣.

7.) 08 Mar 2021
08 Mar 2021 08:40:20
Good to have a laugh Phil all the best.

8.) 08 Mar 2021
08 Mar 2021 09:34:28
All the best Norfolk.

FWAW.