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You know you are getting old when:
Checking out at the grocery store, the young cashier suggested to the
much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because
plastic bags are not good for the environment. The young clerk added,
"That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save
our environment for future generations."
The woman apologized to the young girl & explained, 'We didn't have this
'green bag' back in my earlier days."
Back then, we returned soda bottles to be recycled.
We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store.
We washed the baby's diaper because we didn't have the throw away kind.
We dried clothes on the line.
Kids got hand-me-downs, not brand new clothes.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine & burn fuel just to cut the lawn.
We drank from a fountain instead of a plastic bottle when we got thirsty.
We refilled fountains pens & we replaced the razors when the blade got dull.
Back then we rode streetcars or buses.
And we didn't need a computerized gadget to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks
were because we didn't have the 'green thing' back then ?
Ordinarily, I would've posted this in the "what's for lunch" thread.
Had a rough night, woke up sleepy & hungry.
Too tired & late for work.
I opened up a can of tuna .
Sitting at the table, enjoying the meal with saltine crackers & a Dr. Pepper,
I noticed Polo looking at me very strange.
With regards to the young generation of today...
Heck...I can remember as a kid having to walk 9 feet of shag carpet to go change the
television channels.
Kids nowadays have it so easy ! :tsk:
With regards to the young generation of today...
Heck...I can remember as a kid having to walk 9 feet of shag carpet to go change the
television channels.
Kids nowadays have it so easy ! :tsk:
Shag carpet?! :faint:
That's kinda personal question...but if you must know.. I haven't.
Back then it was only the very high end TVs that had a remote.
...The ones who get me are the people -- of any age -- who lecture you about the environment with a filthy stinking cigarette sticking out of their face.
Many of the earliest remotes were "ultrasonic" -- they worked by sounding a tiny chime inside the clicker that was supposed to be higher than human hearing could detect. But overtones from some doorbells and telephone bells sometimes resonated at the exact frequency required to activate the channel-switching motor -- with the result that channels would change whenever somebody came to the door or the phone rang. Ooops.