Retarded Grandparents

[RIVER LADY]

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