Retirement After Christmas break, a teacher asked her young pupils how
they spent their holidays. One small boy wrote the following: We
always used to spend Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma. They used
live here in a big brick home, but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to
Florida. Now they live in a place with a lot of other retarded
people. They all live in little tin boxes. They ride on three-wheeled
tricycles and they all wear name tags because they don't know who they
are. They go to a big building called a wrecked hall, but if it was
wrecked, they got it fixed because it is all right now. They play games
and do exercises there, but they don't do them very good. There is a
swimming pool there. They go in it and just stand there with their hats
on. I guess they don't know how to swim. As you go into their park,
there is a doll house with a little man sitting in it. He watches all
day so they can't get out without him seeing them. When they can sneak
out they go to the beach and pick up shells that they think are
dollars. My grandma used to bake cookies and stuff, but I
guess she forgot how. Nobody cooks, they just eat out. They
eat the same thing every night.......early birds. Some of the people are so
retarded they don't know how to cook at all, so my Grandma and Grandpa
bring food into the wrecked hall and they call it "Pot Luck." My
Grandma says Grandpa worked all his life and earned his retardment.
I wish they would move back up here, but I guess the little man in the
doll house won't let them out!
