An old lady was on the checkout at the local supermarket when a young female cashier approached her.

The cashier looked at her arrogantly and told her that she ought to bring her own grocery bags next time, saying “plastic bags aren’t green and you are hurting the planet.”

We didn’t have the green thing back in my earlier days,” the senior woman explained.

The cashier looked at her angrily and replied, “I don’t care what you had or didn’t have! that’s our problem today! Your generation didn’t care enough to save our environment for future generations. You almost blew and it ruined the planet.”

The old lady didn’t say a word and the cashier continued, “It’s all your fault and now we suffer because you were too lazy and indifferent!”

The old lady admitted that the cashier was right about one thing. Their generation didn’t have the green thing in their day.

She looked at the cashier with a warm smile and told her: “Honey, back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottle and water bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so that it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled.

We walked up stairs because we didn’t have an escalator in every shop and office building.

We walked to the shop and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.