The "green" thing. (Part 1 of 3)

Checking out at the 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 woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have

this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. YOUR generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

The older lady said that she was right "our generation didn't have

the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain:

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to

the store. The store 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. But we didn't have the "green

thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused

for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was

the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. 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

personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't

do the "green thing" back then.