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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