Retarded Grandparents
(Retirement in the eyes of a child)
After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils
how they spent their holiday away from school.
One child wrote the following:
We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma
and Grandpa. They used to live in a big brick
house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to
Arizona. Now they live in a tin box and have rocks
painted green to look like grass.
They ride around on their bicycles and wear
name tags because they don't know who they are
anymore. They go to a building called a wrecked
center, but they must have got it fixed because
it is all okay now. They play games and do
exercises there, but they don't do them very well.
There is a swimming pool too, but in it, they all
jump up and down with hats on, while they talk to
each other. I guess they don't know how to swim.
At their gate, there is a doll house with a little
old man sitting in it. He watches all day so
nobody escapes. Sometimes they sneak out. They go
cruising in their golf carts.
Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And, they
eat the same thing every night------early birds.
Some of the people can't get out past the man in
the doll house. The ones who do get out, bring
food back to the wrecked center and call it pot
luck.
My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life
to earn his retardment and says I should work
hard so I can be retarded someday too.
When I earn my retardment, I want to be the man
in the doll house. Then I will let people out so
they can visit their grandchildren!