We didn't have this "Green thing".

tumblyweed

tattooed, multiple pierced individual who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

I was with you until there. Then it failed.

Poor form. Not all tattooed, multiple pierced individuals are dummies.

Sometimes it is easy to grasp things by removing our personal sensitivities. The point was not that people with tats are ignorant. The writer was simply pointing out the differences and changes in the generations. Someone may think their tats make them more enlightened and is a way of putting that enlightenment on display while that particular enlightened person may be limited to just what they know.
There are multiple ways to look at anything written but the best way is to remove our personal feelings and try to grasp the point the author was getting at, not THEIR flaws or limitations. Ya dig?

dane11235813

tattooed, multiple pierced individual who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

I was with you until there. Then it failed.

Poor form. Not all tattooed, multiple pierced individuals are dummies.

WOW. I must be a moron because I have a, single, tattoo. Good job OP. HOW CUTE!

I have three. And multiple ear piercings. I must be quite the idiot.

I apologize on that one, I have 3 tattoos and gauges in my ears. I work for a city councillor as an assistant, obviously not stupid. I was trying to hit the GREEN thing. my bad.

It was a good point:) And I understand where you're coming from. It's just a shame that it's lost on such a misrepresentation of people.

maybe if you had not hijacked the thread because you got put off by the piercing comment more people would have stayed on topic.

momswanson

Give the OP a break! I don't believe that she was putting down all people with tatoos and piercings! It sounded to me like the cashier made a comment to the OP based on what she saw, and the OP did the same to make a point, the point being that perhaps the cashier shouldn't judge people by the bag choices lest people judge them on their appearance! If one small comment at the end of an excellent post offends you to the point where you disregard the entire post, well perhaps folks need thicker skin. Or in the words of my father, "That's what is wrong with this generation, they are too soft!"

corn63

tattooed, multiple pierced individual who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

I was with you until there. Then it failed.

Poor form. Not all tattooed, multiple pierced individuals are dummies.

WOW. I must be a moron because I have a, single, tattoo. Good job OP. HOW CUTE!

I have three. And multiple ear piercings. I must be quite the idiot.

I apologize on that one, I have 3 tattoos and gauges in my ears. I work for a city councillor as an assistant, obviously not stupid. I was trying to hit the GREEN thing. my bad.

It was a good point:) And I understand where you're coming from. It's just a shame that it's lost on such a misrepresentation of people.

maybe if you had not hijacked the thread because you got put off by the piercing comment more people would have stayed on topic.

And look, you fed the hijack.

Shame. For shame.

desiv2

Okay, to the people saying she didn't write this. I think we know that, it says it in the first line. However, she posted it under her name putting her support behind it, so the fact that people assume she believes as much is understandable.


That being said, there is no reason to get overly offended by it, it's just a stupid email about how our generation is a bunch of lazy idiots and all the others were obviously so much better. When I'm old as hell I'm sure I'll feel the same way. I just find that the whole 'whose generation was better' thing pointless. It all comes full circle anyway.

GerritTheBlacksmith

great post

yoovie

Congratulations on being born at a better time than other people!! I tried so hard to be born back then but it just didnt work and I landed in the seventies :P

rebeccap13

My grandparents are the most "green" people I know because they lived through the depression... its a shame because people just call them frugal these days.