My kitchen floor is sticky, and 
I had to do something about it. So finally I went out and bought some slippers.

~Sarah Silverman~
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Youth - v - Age

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 apologized 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 sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

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 siblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2300 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 smart arse 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 tattooed, multiple pierced smartarse who can't work out the change without the cash register telling them how much it is!

Here ends the blooming lesson!

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Actual Children's Letters To God


An Interesting Sentiment

Dear God

Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the one you got now?

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What a Lovely Thought Elliott

Dear God

I think about you sometimes, even when I am not praying.

Elliot

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Better Luck Next Time, Joyce

Dear God

Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.

Joyce

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Good Idea Larry

Dear God

Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each so much if the had their own rooms. It works with my brother Larry.

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Dear God

I went to this wedding, and they kissed right in church. Is that ok?

Neil

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Dear God

I think the stapler is one of your greatest invention.

Ruth M

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Dear God

In bible time did they really talk that fancy?

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Dear God

I bet it is very hard for you to love all of every body in the whole world.
There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.

Nan

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Dear God

Please put a nother holiday between Christmas and Easter. There is nothing good in there now.

Ginny

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Dear God

If you watch in Church on Sunday I will show you my new shoes.

Mickey D.

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Dear God

If we come back as something please don't let me be Jennifer Horton because I hate her.

Denise

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Dear God

I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the bible.

Love Chris

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Dear God

If you give me genie lamp like Aladin, I will give you anything you want except my money or my chess set.

Raphael

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Dear God

Please send Dennis Clark to a different camp this Summer.

Peter

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We read Thosmas Edison made light. But in Sun school they said you did it. So I bet he stoled your idea.

Sincerely Donna

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Good morning everyboomie.


Holy cow poop, it's already Hump Day!


I'm so happy.


Not sure why. On most week days I do less than I do on the weekend.


It's just the state of mind I guess.


You know, a lot of those things we did way back in the good old days, as discussed in the first piece above, I'm darned glad we don't have to do it that way now.


That being said, I remember when my Mom would let us leave a note for the milkman to leave us a bottle of chocolate milk. A rare treat for us back in the 50s.


I remember wishing I had a telephone that I could call my friend with while I walked around my neighborhood. I had Steve Jobs vision. I just didn't have his wherewithal.


I remember carrying around a little transistor radio and picking up a scratchy signal of a radio station and thinking this is just the coolest invention ever.


I remember having to go outside and turn the TV antenna back and fourth until someone inside the house yelled "OKAY!!" to pick up any one of the 3 stations available.


A lot of modern conveniences and inventions are not that great for us, or for the environment, but.......I'm liking the way a lot of modern technology is moving, as I walk around the neighborhood with my iPhone and call my friends, or listen to music on my cordless headphones.


Have any happy memories of days past?


Make some new ones today ok?


joe

Have a great day Joe and all who follow.

It's Tuesday night, and I'm late for bed. It's back to work for me in the morning. Luckily, it should be a fairly short day.

Have a great Wednesday, everyone.

Joe, I can remember all those things too! I know I was my dads remote control! If he wanted the TV changed he just yelled from his recliner and I'd go running!

Well, it's going to be -28 in the morning and -16 for a high today. At the moment ALL my clients cancelled and are staying home! I hope I don't get any others added!

Have a happy day all!

Ana

Good Morning Joe, venus, Ana and everyone. Joe I remember getting milk delivered along with fresh eggs from the local farmer. I remember walking several blocks to grammar school and taking a city bus to High School. No school buses! Saturday matinees at the local theater with a "new" chapter every week were fun!
Venus enjoy your short day. Ana that is really cold!! Coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready.
Have a warm and safe day Boomers!

watching court shows and soap opera.

Good morning everyone, have a Great Hump Day. Joe, I remember all of those. I remember walking to school in the snow, bundled up like an Eskimo. Lunch and Netflix with a friend today. Danish, Eggs, Grits, Hash Browns, BB Pancakes, Bacon, and French Toast in the NC.

Good Morning all, working from home today due to the insane temperatures.

Stay warm Ana, hope you don't have to go outside too much today.

The temperature actually went up here, were at a balmy -24 F with a -50 F windchill, where did I put my shorts?

Happy Hump Day ya'll

I'm legal I was horrified to see my driver's license expired while I was in CO So, that was on the top of my list of to-do's. Will be making bread in a bit.

Quite nice out side...hubby is out walking the dogs. I'm doing laundry from our trip.

Supposed to be in the 70's later in the week...not ready for that yet.

Joe, love love love the "green" supermarket joke.

Venus, hope your short day goes smoothly and then it's fun time.

Woo hoo, Ana, don't answer the phone :brrr:

Gerry, I really think we'd all be better off if we went back to a lot of those practices (excepting the computer of course)

Enjoy, Family

Connie, I never walked in the snow, but I did walk a mile to school...had to live 2 miles out to ride the bus. Whatcha watching on Netflix?

Time to break out the sun tan lotion, Trail.

Lovin my last day off

Have a wonderful Hump Day everyone!

Good morning Joe, It's good to go down memory lane - I remember when we had our milk delivered or when we got our first Black & White Television...But I must admit I like using my noki mobile as it's so quick to keep in touch with family..

Have a wonderful relaxing day with Missy -

Hello Ana , Venus , Kaki's Sister , Looney , Soot , family , Connie & Trail_Mystic have a fantastically snuggly day & keep warm...

Happy gaming all

P.S with your driver's license Looney

Good night, everyone.

Goodnight:)