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progressoid

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32. Oh yeah? We walked 15 miles up hill to school every day.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 06:43 PM

Nov 2012

And 26 miles up hill home at the end of the day.

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Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested... (on being Green) [View all] Whisp Nov 2012 OP

Very well said! HappyMe Nov 2012 #1

And 50 years ago there were half as many people on the planet. Spider Jerusalem Nov 2012 #2

'did not care enough' is both rude and uninformed. elleng Nov 2012 #3

Arrogant to the point of bigotry, really. Although no one has to *teach* me on it. I'm a green nazi. freshwest Nov 2012 #48

But no one actually said this. It's a cutesy anecdote. antigone382 Nov 2012 #58

Touche! eom ChisolmTrailDem Nov 2012 #4

seems the younger generation like their time and effort loli phabay Nov 2012 #5

Let's talk about the number of disposable electronics consumed Skidmore Nov 2012 #12

I could give up ballpoint pens for real ink pens, but not plastic diapers. I too washed many northoftheborder Nov 2012 #17

I sure would have loved to have a dryer Skidmore Nov 2012 #19

They didn't invent it though treestar Nov 2012 #68

My mother and mother-in-law were children of the Depression ... frazzled Nov 2012 #6

same here: mother and inlaws so frugal, recycling and saving everything. They grew up in the northoftheborder Nov 2012 #18

I do that with the plastic veggie bags. noamnety Nov 2012 #42

You can buy reusable veggie bags. athena Nov 2012 #75

I actually made some noamnety Nov 2012 #77

Bottle deposits were a good way to pick up a little pocket money when I was a kid. yellowcanine Nov 2012 #7

Indeed, Sir The Magistrate Nov 2012 #8

Cokes (6.5 oz) were a nickel from the machine in the break room where my mom worked. yellowcanine Nov 2012 #14

Nickel It Was, Sir The Magistrate Nov 2012 #15

Saw those some places but this one was an upright machine. yellowcanine Nov 2012 #16

of all the things that annoy me on this topic the most, it is plastic bottles of water Whisp Nov 2012 #9

Augh! yes, I've tried to explain this to my co-workers Scootaloo Nov 2012 #22

This story has been around No Vested Interest Nov 2012 #10

I haven't seen it before. n/t Whisp Nov 2012 #11

The supermarket that I visit has a whole section set aside for returns of cans. plastic bottles, bluestate10 Nov 2012 #13

Snotty, ignorant clerk never heard this said by the folks who survived the Depression: kestrel91316 Nov 2012 #20

Oh gawd - you made me feel so old closeupready Nov 2012 #23

Argh! The pain! blackspade Nov 2012 #60

Please... toddwv Nov 2012 #21

I have a hard time believing this story. athena Nov 2012 #24

Like it is so hard to believe that someone is smug and holier than thou about their "greenness?" Lightbulb_on Nov 2012 #25

I don't think it's a conversation between real people. Whisp Nov 2012 #26

As an environmentalist ... athena Nov 2012 #28

More Old BS to make the Polystyrene Generation feel good about poisoning their children, slampoet Nov 2012 #27

Our "trash can" was a very small waste bin SoCalDem Nov 2012 #29

Wasn't this posted here some time back ? seems like one of those emails that get JI7 Nov 2012 #30

I doubt these are actual two people in real life having this conversation. Whisp Nov 2012 #31

It matters a great deal. athena Nov 2012 #71

this story isn't about a particular old lady or a particular 'rude'/whatever clerk Whisp Nov 2012 #74

This is completely fake and written by a young person. slampoet Nov 2012 #44

It sounds like you had a bad pen. athena Nov 2012 #73

THen i had seven bad pens in a row. slampoet Nov 2012 #79

Wow. You just called me a liar. athena Dec 2012 #80

Oh yeah? We walked 15 miles up hill to school every day. progressoid Nov 2012 #32

I remember way back when abelenkpe Nov 2012 #34

LOL! Whisp Nov 2012 #35

In the snow..... Grammy23 Nov 2012 #51

If you were lucky. progressoid Nov 2012 #63

Also we bought lots of locally grown foods. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2012 #33

Love the farmers market on the weekend! nt abelenkpe Nov 2012 #37

This is an ugly BS story abelenkpe Nov 2012 #36

that's what I don't quite like either. Whisp Nov 2012 #39

So true! nt abelenkpe Nov 2012 #46

Well, call me a cranky over-70 grannie, classof56 Nov 2012 #38

Class of 54 DakotaLady Nov 2012 #54

Thanks, DakotaLady. I know what you mean! classof56 Nov 2012 #78

"did not care enough??" WTF! People didn't know, my grandparents had an incinerator they sure the Raine Nov 2012 #40

When I was growing up a long time ago, we had a very small carbon footprint. rhett o rick Nov 2012 #41

"Small carbon footprint?" johnd83 Nov 2012 #47

Cars and gadgets take a lot of resources to make. nm rhett o rick Nov 2012 #49

Cars last much longer than they used to. My car is 15 years old and going strong. johnd83 Nov 2012 #52

If one of my cashiers had said that Codeine Nov 2012 #43

back then, many lived w/ a smaller energy & resource depletion footprint, so not entirely true...eom amborin Nov 2012 #45

Plus we had those weird things called... whistler162 Nov 2012 #50

Good Point, thanks Whisp! I miss bottles! nm Cha Nov 2012 #53

You are exactly right we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, doc03 Nov 2012 #55

Why, Oh why ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2012 #56

This is terrible but we used to go behind the local store and doc03 Nov 2012 #59

Shhh ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2012 #65

Good point. nt Honeycombe8 Nov 2012 #57

Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle. Snarkoleptic Nov 2012 #61

as a kid i always collected bottles...up to a nickel if you returned it to a store... spanone Nov 2012 #62

My generation had cloth diapers and glass soda containers and milk bottles lunatica Nov 2012 #64

I don't think that our desire for convenience and indulgences at the cost of... LanternWaste Nov 2012 #66

But then we went for the convenient plastic treestar Nov 2012 #67

Except the makers of "waxed-paper", a material you seldom saw strewn along the side of the highway. 1-Old-Man Nov 2012 #70

In my town... GoCubsGo Nov 2012 #69

This. Never. Happened. It's called "a set-up to the punchline." WinkyDink Nov 2012 #72

I did my part to be green... Jasana Nov 2012 #76