RETARDED GRANDPARENTS

After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils

how they spent their holiday away from school.

One child wrote the following:

We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma

and Grandpa. They used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa got

retarded and they moved to Florida , where everyone

lives in nice little houses, so they don't have to

mow the grass anymore!

They ride around on their bicycles and scooters and

wear name tags because they don't know who they

are anymore.

They go to a building called a wreck center, but they

must have got it fixed because it is all okay now.

They 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 hats on. At their 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, and go cruising in their

golf carts! Nobody there cooks, they just eat out.

And, they eat the same thing every night --- early birds.

Some of the people can't get out past the old man in the

doll house. The ones who do get out, bring food back

to the wrecked center for pot luck.

My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn

his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be

retarded someday too.

When I earn my retardment, I want to be the man in the

doll house. Then I will let people out, so they can visit their grandchildren.

Thanks Jan!!