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When checking out at the supermarket, an old lady asked if she could have some plastic bags, the young cashier suggested to the old woman that she should bring her own bags because plastic bags were not good for the environment.
The old woman apologised and explained, we did not have this green thing back in my younger days. The young cashier responded, that's our problem today, people of your generation did not care enough to save the environment for future generations.
Back in our day my generation may not have had this green thing - but ;-)
Back in our day, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop or pub and they sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, thereby using use the same bottles over and over again.
Back in our day shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable apart from putting household rubbish in them, was the use of brown paper bags to cover our schoolbooks to ensure that they were not defaced by our scribblings.
Back in our day we walked up stairs, because we didn't have lifts or escalator in every building, and we didn't climb into a vehicle every time we had to go to the shops, we walked.
Back in our day we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the disposable kind, and we dried our clothes on a line, not in a tumble drier, wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our days, and kids in those days did not always get brand-new clothes, they often got clothes handed down from their brothers or sisters.
Back in our day, 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, unlike the screens on modern plasma and lcd televisions of today.
Back in our day in the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have gadgets to do everything for us, and when we packaged a fragile item to send in the post we used old newspapers to protect it, not foam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back in our day, few had powered lawnmowers, most people used a push mower that ran on human power, and we exercised by walking, we didn't need to go to a health club to run on a treadmill operated by electricity.
Back in our day 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 used refillable fountain pens with real ink, and we also replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade was blunt.
Back in our day, kids either walked, took the bus, took the train, or rode their bikes to school, they did not use their mums and dads as a taxi service.
Funny really how the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back in our day ;-)
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