RE: Retirement in a Trailer Park

this is cute, things like this help during difficult times

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Cates [mailto:rd_cates@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:03 AM
To: Brickman, Ronnie; Guy Bruner; Campbell, Larry; Chris Gerald; raymond
hanover; Haug, Steve; Ben Howard; Bill Jones; Loveless, Rick; Nichols,
Leo; John Rose
Subject: Fwd: Retirement in a Trailer Park

< RETIREMENT IN A TRAILER PARK THRU THE EYES OF A
< CHILD This is just too
< cute!
<
< 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
< 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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