Retirement

[snopes]

After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their
holiday away from school.

One child wrote the following: "We always used to spend the holidays
with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live in a big brick house but
Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Florida. Now they live in a tin
house and have rocks painted green to look like grass. They ride around on
their bicycles 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 okay now, and do exercises there, but they
don't do them very well.

There is a swimming pool too, but in it, they all jump up and down
with hats on.

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. They go cruising in their golf carts.

Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And they eat the same thing
every night -- early birds.

Some of the people can't get out past the man in the doll house. The
ones who do get out, bring food back to the wrecked center for pot luck.

My Grandma says that Grandpa 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."