RETARDED GRANDPARENTS

RETARDED GRANDPARENTS -

(This was actually reported by a teacher.)

After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent theirholiday away from school. One child wrote the following:

We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. Theyused to live in a big brick house in Wisconsin , but Grandpa gotretarded and they moved to Florida . Now they live in a tin box andhave rocks painted green to look like grass.

They ride around on their bicycles and wear name tags because they don'tknow who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wreckcenter, but they must have got it fixed because it is all okay now, theydo exercises there, but they don't do them very well. There is aswimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with hats on. Attheir gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it.He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out, andgo cruising in their golf carts.

Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And, they eat the same thingevery night --- early birds. Some of the people can't get out past theman in the doll house. The ones who do get out bring food back to thewrecked center for pot luck.

My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardmentand says I should work hard so I can be retarded someday too. When Iearn my retardment, I want to be the man in the doll house. Then I willlet people out, so they can visit their grandchildren.