A Child's View of Retirement in a Mobile Home Parks

 

After Christmas break, the teacher asked her small pupils how they spent their holiday.  One little boy's reply went like this:

"We always spend Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma.  They used to live up here in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Arizona.

They live in a park with a lot of other retarded people.  They all live in
tin huts.  They ride tricycles that are too big for me.

They all go to a building they call the wrecked hall.  But it is fixed now.

They do exercises, but not very well.  They plan a game with big checkers
and push them around the floor with sticks.

There is a swimming pool but I guess nobody teaches them.  They just stand there in the water with their hats on.

My Grandma used to bake cookies for me but nobody cooks there.  They all go out to restaurants that have discounts.

When you come into the park, there is a doll house with a man sitting in
it. He watches all day so they can't get out without him seeing them.  I guess
everybody forgets who they are because they all wear badges with their
names on it.

Some of them don't hear very well.  They could hear better if they took the buttons out of their ears.

Grandma says Grandpa worked hard all his life to earn his retirement.  I
wish they would move back home but I guess the man in the doll house won't let them out."