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July 07, 2014, 05:45:11 PM |
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Now I admit that I am not the original author but this is worth reprinting and within my personal experience is very, very true! "ARE YOU "GOING GREEN?" Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized 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." She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day. 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, 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 schoolbooks. This was to ensure that publicproperty (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown bag but 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 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. 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 really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), 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 enginend 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. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. 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 in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." 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 out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person... We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off . . .especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. Stupid little shit."
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July 07, 2014, 09:46:49 PM |
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I like this. Everybody is waiting for companies to make green products and be carbon neutral. It would be easier for the world if people didn't need to consume so much. Sure it's nice to have a TV in every room of the house so everybody could watch whatever they want, but 4 people watching on 4 LEDs is the same to the Earth as a family watching 1 CRT - except the CRT won't have as much non degradable plastic.
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July 08, 2014, 12:24:19 AM |
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Now I admit that I am not the original author but this is worth reprinting and within my personal experience is very, very true! "ARE YOU "GOING GREEN?" Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized 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." She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day. 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, 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 schoolbooks. This was to ensure that publicproperty (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown bag but 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 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. 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 really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), 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 enginend 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. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. 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 in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." 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 out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person... We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off . . .especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. Stupid little shit." excuse all teh horseshit, but she was talking about marijuana.
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LostDutchman (OP)
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July 08, 2014, 12:33:20 AM |
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Now I admit that I am not the original author but this is worth reprinting and within my personal experience is very, very true! "ARE YOU "GOING GREEN?" Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized 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." She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day. 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, 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 schoolbooks. This was to ensure that publicproperty (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown bag but 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 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. 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 really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), 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 enginend 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. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. 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 in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." 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 out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person... We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off . . .especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. Stupid little shit." excuse all teh horseshit, but she was talking about marijuana. Horseshit.
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July 08, 2014, 01:26:24 AM |
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Grocery bags, made from trees...worse than plastic bags? Please.. Even if recycled, trees are still used to produce new ones, no doubt.
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July 08, 2014, 01:30:30 AM |
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Grocery bags, made from trees...worse than plastic bags? Please.. Even if recycled, trees are still used to produce new ones, no doubt.
Difference between trees and petrol? Petrol is someday going to end. Trees die and regrow so theoretically we can have a never ending supply of paper. Paper producing (imo) is not bad for the einvironment since trees are harvested specifically for that activity.
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July 08, 2014, 03:42:45 AM |
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Green involves recycling. Just cause u recycled back in the day doesn't mean u should relive the 80's
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LostDutchman (OP)
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July 08, 2014, 04:03:31 AM |
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Green involves recycling. Just cause u recycled back in the day doesn't mean u should relive the 80's
80s? We are talking about a whole lot of stuff that began in the early 1900s and was cast aside by the so-called "Liberals" and "Greenies". Find one thing wrong with what we did back than. I dare you to try!! You need a few history lessons!
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July 08, 2014, 04:04:19 AM |
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Green involves recycling. Just cause u recycled back in the day doesn't mean u should relive the 80's
80s? We are talking about a whole lot of stuff that began in the early 1900s and was cast aside by the so-called "Liberals" and "Greenies". Find one thing wrong with what we did back than. I dare you to try!! You need a few history lessons! i can't find nothin wrong with the 90's other than BackStreet Boys
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LostDutchman (OP)
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July 08, 2014, 04:06:37 AM |
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Green involves recycling. Just cause u recycled back in the day doesn't mean u should relive the 80's
80s? We are talking about a whole lot of stuff that began in the early 1900s and was cast aside by the so-called "Liberals" and "Greenies". Find one thing wrong with what we did back than. I dare you to try!! You need a few history lessons! i can't find nothin wrong with the 90's other than BackStreet Boys This is NOT 90s! WTF is wrong with you?
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July 08, 2014, 04:14:45 AM |
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well what happened this generation that caused u to lose an eye. must have been mind shattering, huh? i love tree-hippie liberals. best generation of them all. i think Backstreet Boys ruined it for them.
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LostDutchman (OP)
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July 08, 2014, 03:06:01 PM |
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well what happened this generation that caused u to lose an eye. must have been mind shattering, huh? i love tree-hippie liberals. best generation of them all. i think Backstreet Boys ruined it for them. OH, nothing to do with the times or any given generation; just a condition that may have developed from any of several causes but the specific cause cannot be deteremined.
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July 08, 2014, 03:15:03 PM |
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The cashier is an indoctrinated ignorant little cunt and the old lady should have called her that. Hell, the person in line behind her writing this story should have called her that and gotten the manager to get her reprimanded. If that 'holier-than-thou' bitch loses her job over this she might learn something for once.
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LostDutchman (OP)
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July 08, 2014, 03:19:22 PM |
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The cashier is an indoctrinated ignorant little cunt and the old lady should have called her that. Hell, the person in line behind her writing this story should have called her that and gotten the manager to get her reprimanded. If that 'holier-than-thou' bitch loses her job over this she might learn something for once.
Oh, man, they really do that shit all over the place in this country. Part of being ingrained as a so-called "liberal"
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LostDutchman (OP)
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July 08, 2014, 03:29:55 PM |
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The cashier is an indoctrinated ignorant little cunt and the old lady should have called her that. Hell, the person in line behind her writing this story should have called her that and gotten the manager to get her reprimanded. If that 'holier-than-thou' bitch loses her job over this she might learn something for once.
Oh, man, they really do that shit all over the place in this country. Part of being ingrained as a so-called "liberal" A more fun reaction would be to start singing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFgtIziShmc at the top of your voice as you think "Fuck you bitch have fun in your dead end job and life" and grin through your teeth. Yeah but then I might not be able to go back to that grocery store and I like it.
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LostDutchman (OP)
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July 08, 2014, 04:41:57 PM |
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Lotsa' truth to that one!
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July 08, 2014, 06:01:44 PM |
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> this is the insulting robot
> back in my days no diapers were needed at all
> stupid humanity
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July 08, 2014, 06:06:48 PM |
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Now I admit that I am not the original author but this is worth reprinting and within my personal experience is very, very true! "ARE YOU "GOING GREEN?" Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized 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." She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day. 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, 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 schoolbooks. This was to ensure that publicproperty (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown bag but 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 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. 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 really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), 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 enginend 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. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. 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 in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." 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 out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person... We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off . . .especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. Stupid little shit." Made me smile. Thanks. We used to love taking the bottles back for the deposit.
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July 08, 2014, 06:09:02 PM |
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Now I admit that I am not the original author but this is worth reprinting and within my personal experience is very, very true! "ARE YOU "GOING GREEN?" Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized 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." She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day. 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, 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 schoolbooks. This was to ensure that publicproperty (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown bag but 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 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. 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 really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), 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 enginend 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. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. 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 in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." 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 out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person... We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off . . .especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much. Stupid little shit." Made me smile. Thanks. We used to love taking the bottles back for the deposit. Yep. Free money from the side of the road! I had a little red wagon when small and a bicycle with great big baskets later on.
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