A Young Cashier Told An Older Woman That She Should Bring Her Grocery Bags Because Plastic Bags Weren't

A young cashier told an older woman that she should bring her grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized, "We didn't have this green thing back in my day."

The young clerk said, "Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She gave him a firm stare and a hard grin and said “Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, and beer bottles. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over. They were recycled.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, which we reused for numerous things. We walked upstairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power did dry our clothes back in our day. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. The TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. 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 gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push 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 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 with a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

Back then, people took a bus and kids rode their bikes instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. 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 23,000 miles in space to find the nearest burger joint. But the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing.”

The cashier stood there still and quiet as the old lady found her wallet to pay. Then lady turned to leave but stepped back and turned toward the cashier. She said “You have a world of knowledge in that little device in your hand. Pity you just use it to gossip, take pictures, and waste time. It would do you good to search a bit of history before you embarrass yourself like this again.

Forward this to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.

Anime that you should watch because they good for ya soul.

Feel free to add to the list. Always looking for new anime.

- YuYu Hakusho

- Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

- My Hero Academia

- FairyTail

- Juni Taisen: Zodiac War

- Angel Beats!

- Death Parade

- Death Note

- Naruto/ Naruto Shippuden

- D. Gray-man

- Akame Ga Kill!

- Danganronpa (all 3 in order)

- Cowboy Bebop

- Tokyo Ghoul

- Attack On Titan

- X Men (Yes, there is an anime)

- Deadman Wonderland

- High School Of The Dead

- Wolf’s Rain

- No. 6

- Free!

- Inuyasha

- One Punch Man

- One Piece

- Sword Art Online (first season only)

- The Flower We Saw That Day

- The Reflection (kind of slow but interesting)

I have more but thats all that comes to mind right now…

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tarume

1 year ago

We only get 3 months of decent weather in Washington and you can't take August away from me. It is summer. Agree or fight me. :)

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tarume

1 year ago

RB for the largest sample size this site has ever seen

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tarume

4 years ago

Headcanon:

At some point between the Silver Chair and the Last Battle, as Susan is slowly falling away from her faith in Narnia, she and Eustace have a fight about it. She just can’t understand how someone who used to be so logical, someone who hadn’t grow up on fairy tales at all, could believe something so fantastical. She calls him a baby, tells him he needs to grow up and open his eyes to the real world because this is all there is.

His answer?

“Well, you know, I don’t really care what you say about it. Maybe it is all just a silly game, something we made up to pass the time in a world that is so dreary and dark. But it was real to us anyway, and that’s all that matters. So I’m going to go on believing in Aslan even if there isn’t any Aslan. I’m going to keep living as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia. Because even if it wasn’t real, that make-believe world, as you called it, is a good deal better than this one.”

(Bonus: He doesn’t even realize he echoed Puddleglum’s speech to the Lady of the Green Curdle. But the situation is uncanny, and Puddleglum’s words had stuck with him in such a way that he’d never forgotten them.)

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tarume

1 year ago

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tarume

11 months ago

This “Pride Month,” we as Christians should strive to ignore it all entirely. Attention (negative as much as positive) is what these people are seeking, so you’re feeding their egos and fueling their persecution complex by making memes about how all gays are going to Hell or virtue signaling about how much you hate rainbow-encrusted merch. A lot of the “appeal” of Pride Month comes from the controversy that makes its rounds in Christian and conservative media outlets each year; it’s practically part of the LGBT holiday tradition to cry about da evil homophobes, and it’s not Pride Month without having a “struggle” of some kind for activists to “fight” against. Just don’t give them any attention.

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tarume

1 year ago

It's amazing how Fellowship of the Ring, a movie released in 2001, has scenes that are in extreme darkness (like the giant squid fight at the gates of Moria) and I can still easily tell what is going on. It's amazing how Fellowship of the Ring, which once again is from the year 2001, has quiet dialogue scenes and loud action scenes and yet I do not constantly have to mess with the volume to hear what is being said and avoid having my ears blown out, respectively. Why is this remarkable again

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tarume

1 year ago