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"RETARDED" GRANDPARENTS



Supposedly written by a third grader, on what his grandparents do.

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. Now they live in a tin box that has wheels, but its
strapped to the ground. 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 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 just
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 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.

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