Retarded Grandparent

Retarded Grandparents
After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils to write about 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 usedto live in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved toFlorida.Now they live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look likegrass. They ride around on their bicycles 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 itfixed because it is all okay now, and do exercises there, but they don'tdo them very well.There is a swimming pool too, but in it, they all jump up and down withhats 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. They go cruising in their golf carts.Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And they eat the same thing everynight -- early birds.Some of the people can't get out past the man in the doll house. The ones who do get out, bring food back to the wrecked centre 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 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.PRICELESS