Grandparents
A Child's View of Retirement
After a Spring Break, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holidays. One small child wrote the following:
We always used to live with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live in a big brick house, but Grandpa got retarted and they moved to Florida. Now they live in a place with a lot of other retarted people. They all live in little tin boxes. They ride on big three-wheeled tricycles and they all have name tags because they don't know who they are; and they have to put flowers on the antennas of their cars to help them find their cars. They go to a big building called a wrecked hall, but they must have got it fixed, because it's all right now. They play games and do exercises, but they don't do them very good. There is a swimming pool there, but they stand in it 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 sneak out, they go to the beach and pick up shells.
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 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 retartment. I wish they would move back up here, but I guess the little man in the doll house won't let them out. -- Author Unknown
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