Even if you're not a grandparent you will enjoy this. A
teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their
vacation. One child wrote the following:
We always spend our vacation with Grandma and Grandpa. They
used to live here in a big, brick house, but Grandpa got
retarded and they moved to Florida and now they live in a
place with a lot of other retarded people.
They live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look
like grass. They ride around on big tricycles 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 right now. They play
games and do exercises there, but they don't do them very
well.
There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down
in it with their hats on. I guess they don't know how to
swim.
At their gate there is a dollhouse with a little old man
sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape.
Sometimes they sneak out. Then they go cruising in their
golf carts.
My grandma used to bake cookies and stuff, but I guess she
forgot how. Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And they
eat the same thing every night: Early Birds.
Some of the people can't get past the man in the dollhouse
to go out, so the ones who get out bring food back to the
wrecked center and call it "pot luck."
My Grandma says Grandpa worked all his life to earn his
retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded
one day, too.
When I earn my retardment I want to be the man in the
dollhouse. Then I will let people out so they can visit
their grandchildren.
