| Child's Perspective on Retirement |
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| ::darkshadows:: (blood@thirsty.net) |
2008/03/06 19:35 |
Child's Perspective on Retirement
A 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 nametags 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 do get out bring food back to
the wrecked center and call it potluck.
My Grandma says Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and
says I should work hard so I can be retarded some 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."
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