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THE ELDERLY CONDITION
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A teacher asked her young pupils
how they spent their vacation. One
child wrote the following:
We always spend our vacation 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
dollhouse. Then I will let people out
so they can visit their grandchildren.
Author Unknown