fantayzya
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Registered: Aug 2002
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Posted 11-26-02 01:10 PM
The teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their
vacation...
One child wrote the following: We always used to spend the
holidays 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 doll house. Then I will let people out so they can visit their grandchildren
***Visiting my grandparents in their 'retardment' was how I got to visit WDW for my first time. Gramps retired from the same GM plant I now work at 28 years ago. His goal is to collect his pension for as long as he worked. He worked nearly 35 years as I recall. He'll be 93 in early December, still drives, has a youngster (in her 70s) for a lady friend, and is frustrated at having to rent a golf cart as his knees won't walk the golf course any more. He no longer goes to Florida and hasn't for a few years now.
I hope my 'retardment' is half as good and as long as his.
"One small drop of water raises the sea" Marian in Dinotopia
"One who grows does not grow old"-Texas Bix Bender, writer
"Look Mommy," he whispered. "The butterflies are dancing!" At that moment, inside my soul somewhere, all the tumblers fell into place."-Kathy Storfer, "A Dig in the Dirt," Green Prints Spring 1997
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