That is precious...thanks for sharing.
Carla wrote:
> 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!
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