At the checkout at Tesco, the young cashier sez that it’s now 5p for a carrier bag. 5p for a placky bag? Gee Whiz! I must have enough for two weeks all-inclusive holiday in the Bahamas in the pantry!
You can get a shopping trolley for a quid!
Apparently, bags are not good for the environment. Non-Stick Nora apologised to the checkout girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my younger days."
The checkout girl responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
Nora said that she was right! Our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day, and then went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, mineral bottles and beer bottles to the corner shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised 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 rubbish 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 doodling. Then we were able to personalise our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 4 x 4 petrol guzzling machine every time we had to go two streets. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we had one telly or radio, in the house -- not a plasma screen in every room. In the kitchenette, 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 post, 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 or electricity just to mow the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human endeavour. We exercised by working, so we didn't need to go to a gym to run on treadmills that operate on lectrifying electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's £45,000 4 x 4 Land Rover, which cost what a whole house did before the “green thing." End of rant!
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Apparently, bags are not good for the environment. Non-Stick Nora apologised to the checkout girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my younger days."
The checkout girl responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
Nora said that she was right! Our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day, and then went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, mineral bottles and beer bottles to the corner shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised 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 rubbish 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 doodling. Then we were able to personalise our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 4 x 4 petrol guzzling machine every time we had to go two streets. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we had one telly or radio, in the house -- not a plasma screen in every room. In the kitchenette, 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 post, 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 or electricity just to mow the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human endeavour. We exercised by working, so we didn't need to go to a gym to run on treadmills that operate on lectrifying electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's £45,000 4 x 4 Land Rover, which cost what a whole house did before the “green thing." End of rant!
If you read this weekly column regularly, then you help to make unimportant world decisions dealing with irrelevant, uncomplicated issues that influence insignificant amounts of human lives. Visit my website http://www.ComedianUK.com and continue the quest! Email me:comedianuk@sky.com NB: All these jokes are recycled!
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