Pumps' Perplexities

I sincerely doubt that any of the people, who are exponents
of living green could actually live that way.....The way their
grandparents lived back in the 20's-30's and 40's.....Yes,
people lived green back then......

For instance, if you lived in an apartment you had a fuse box
which supplied 30amps to your 3 or 4 rooms......There was
ONE ceiling fixture in each room that only held ONE bulb.....
There was only ONE, dual, electric outlet in each room (for
ONE floor/table lamp and radio)......All clocks were wound by
hand - not electric.......If you had a home you had 60amps....
Today's electrical code starts at 200amps......

There were NO TVs, NO microwaves, NO electric ranges and
NO hair dryers......Soda was bought at a store dispensing
fountain or in a small, returnable, refillable, DEPOSIT bottle.....
NO food or drink came in a plastic container......Bread was
baked at home or bought at a bakery.......Meat came from a
butcher, milk-eggs-cheese from a dairy store......

Clothes were air dried on a clothes line......NO electric dryers.....
Your milk bottle was recycled and refilled.....NOT every one
had a car, or two.....Plastic shopping bags DID NOT exist.......
If you wanted air conditioning, on a hot day, you went to
a movie theater........You used 18 cent, low grade, gasoline
to clean your tools.....You knew how to fully disassemble
and repair a Bendix bicycle brake at the age of 10, or if you
were a girl you could start a gas oven and bake a cake....

So, as it is said today, in today's parlance, any grandma or
grandpa has, "Been there and done that".......That is why
"living green" is really only rhetoric for a modern and,
some say, spoiled generation........They do not even have
the "chutzpah" to try to live that way......Pumps