Hey!
Even
if you're not a grandparent you will enjoy this. A third grade
teacher asked her young pupils to
write about 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.
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