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hensylee

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Courtesy of Granbonnie:

Even if you're not a grandparent you will enjoy this. 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.
 
Blue Plate Special

Blue Plate Special

Several years ago John and I pulled into a small R.V. campground for overnight..It was in the winter on the Gulf of Mexico..very deserted place...Man next door was bragging he and his wife had spent the last 20 years there in winter. (Very cold that far North).I asked what did they do all day..He smiled and said, Why, we wait until 11 a.m. and get the Early Bird (Blue Plate Special) up the road at Myrtle's...I have learned since..it was made into a Cond complex. Wonder where the poor man is this winter:D Bonnie
 
They fill RV parks, condos, trailer parks (and Mid-Fl has some beautiful ones, club houses and all) and cities on the Gulf Coast of St Pete, Sarasota Ft Myers, Pt Charlotte, Punta Gorda, etc. Surprising how many retardment centers there are. Isn't it wonderful that youth returns for a time in places like these. They act like teens, flirt, date, go dancing - except when the "kids" come to visit. Then they revert to old age til their kids go home. When you see old people sitting on the porch in the swing, they are not whiling away their time; they are simply waiting for the next event to begin. Surprises you when you see so many cars without drivers, but when you get closer, there IS a little old shrunken person peeking over the dashboard - usually going really, really slow. The $2.00 breakfast, the $5.00 lunch and the early bird dinner special is the way to go, like Bonnie said. It's a whole 'hidden' way of life to many other Americans but a very strong and thriving one. More power to them........and all of us are on our way there, aren't we?
 
Ski Holidays

Ski Holidays

Hi Ann

I really loved that story.

I read the following in a magazine

A retired lady told her friend that she was going on a Ski holiday

her friend replied that he was not aware that she could ski and she should be careful

the lady replied "Ski I cannot Ski"

I mean Spending Kids Inheritence

maybe a lot more retired people should take up this pass time

take Care

Jan
 
I want to spend my "retardment" like Picasso did. He had two pearl-handled revolvers he wore in holsters while he painted. When he got a little frustrated, he'd pull out the guns and blow holes in the ceiling, and then would resume painting. No one tried to stop him from doing anything he wanted, and when he was done glopping paint on the canvas, it would sell for seven figures.

George Burns said something at one of his 90+ birthday parties that also spoke to having a good "retardment":

"I can do everything now that I could when I was a 21-year-old man, which just goes to show how pathetic I was at 21."

--John
 
Reminds me of the one feisty 70-something year old warehouse worker I used to work with -- he had a T-shirt inscribed with the following:

"I'm not as great as I once was, but I'm as great once as I ever was."

I want to be like that when I'm in my 70's.

SteveE
 
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