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Retirement Years and Avocations
SUMMARY
I close with this rendition of
"RETIREMENT'
(from a child's view) -- a parody submitted by
my second cousin Georgette Tenley:
After
a
Christmas break,
a
teacher
asked her young pupils how they spent
their holidays. One small boy wrote the
following from his perspective:
We always used to spend
Christmas with Grandpa and
Grandma. They used to live
here in
a
big red house, but
Grandpa got retarded and they
moved to Florida. Now they live
in
a
place with
a
lot of other
retarded people. They al/ live in
little tin boxes, they ride in big
three-wheeled tricycles and they
all wear name tags because
they don't know who they are.
They go to big building called
a
wrecked hall, but if it was
wrecked, they got it fixed up,
because it's all right now.
They play games and do
exercises there, but they don't
do them very good. There is
a
swimming pool there. They go
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