Thursday, August 2, 2007

olden times

Simon [holding a plastic bag]: Do I throw this away or recycle?
Me: throw it away.
Me [marveling]: Did you know that we never asked that question when we were your age? There was no such thing as recycling.

Simon: was there garbage?
Me: Yes.
Simon: was there newspapers?
Me: Yes.
Simon: Was there school?
Me: Yes.
Simon: Ok. So there was everything in the world except recycling.

1 comment:

Josh said...

What kind of bag? Those plastic grocery bags and newspaper bags can be recycled at Giant.

(Yes, I'm mostly missing the point.)