OT - Time for a little laughter

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Hope you guys don't mind an off topic post. Time to take a break from all of

the seriousness. My dad sent this to me, and I thought it was just too cute.

If you have ever known anyone living in a retirement community, you will

appreciate it too.

> > RETIREMENT IN A TRAILER PARK THRU THE EYES OF A CHILD

> > >

> > > After a spring break, a teacher asked her young pupils how

> > > they spent

> > > the

> > > holidays. 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

> > > Arizona. 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 doll house

> > >

> > > 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

> > > doll

> > > house to go out. So the ones who do get out bring food back

> > >

> > > to the

> > > wrecked

> > > center and call it pot luck.

> > >

> > > My Grandma says Grandpa's 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. "

> > >

> > >

> > > =====

> > > HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!!!