Posted on 01/10/2022 1:00:19 PM PST by sodpoodle
RETARDED GRANDPARENTS - (this was actually reported by a teacher) 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 Batemans Bay where everyone lives in nice little houses, and so they don't have to mow the grass anymore!
They ride around on their bicycles and scooters and wear name tags because they don't know who they are anymore.
They go to a building called a wreck centre, but they must have got it fixed because it is all okay now. They 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 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, and 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 centre 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.
I live in the country and have a UTV..Call her Nellie Bell..The grandkids love to get out of the city and visit the COUNTRY..We are both lucky old timers !!
My dad would always tell people he was retarded from the Army after 20 years. I first him say that almost 50 years ago.
We are. What’s a UTV?
I rescued my father from a “retardment” center. He spent the last year of his life with his son, daughter-in-law, and grandsons. It was a priceless time for all of us.
Proverbs specifically comments about the grandfather, father, and son connection. In todays world, too many sons don’t really know their father, much less their father’s father. I was blessed as well and was able to spend a lot of time growing up with my dad’s father.
Yeow! Good one.
Retirement living seems empty and self absorbed to me. I want to be around for my kids and have my grandkids visit without cranky neighbors complaining about the noise (I might, but I don’t want strangers to!).
No little old men in doll houses telling my or my family who can come in and out! Life is to be lived with family, with people you have spent decades building relationships with, not strangers who got the apartment next door just because they are of similar age to you.
Can you go full retardment when you are 65?
lots of kids walk away from their kids.
others have kids that died
It's now January 2022. That Fat Bob has 20,000 additional miles on the odometer. I'm 65 now. Do I want a golf cart? Nope. A used 2015 Suzuki DR650SE (bush pig) is my lightweight choice for travel. The big V-twins are ready for road trips. The thumpers, Yamaha SR400 and Suzuki DR650SE, are ready for short trips. The Kawasaki Versys is still in the stable for canyon carving.
I have a classmate who bought a nice house in a retirement community. Behind her backyard is a golf course. She has time to enjoy the "house beautiful" life with all of the French provincial style she prefers. New neighbors and a social life with people of similar age. I'm not ready to switch gears that hard. Forty years of software development has kept me pretty disciplined on time management.
I know, it sounds as if we should feel sorry for them and their boring sanitized existence. Gezzz
My aunt and uncle moved to one of those places. I went to visit once not long after they moved in. When I arrived I had to call from the front gate.
My aunt answered and I said “I didn’t live in a prison.”
My uncle is dead now but my mom and her husband live in the retardedment community.
I’m old enough now to think that it’s a pretty cool place.
That sounds like this White House now...
LOL another retardment person
But I was born exactly one hundred years after Vincent van Gogh. 'So I've got that goin for me, which is nice."
works most best in Floredah.
Sun City is maybe the most retarded place in Floredah.
A lot of us would love to be rescued from retardment.
Full retardment at 65? Not nearly mostly.
“Not too long ago, the granddaughters stayed over, and I let the little one, who was 4, stay up a little “late”.”
We just let them all stay up as late as they want. Heck, they are at Grandpa and Grandma’s house! They eat popcorn, watch movies, talk nonsense, and then fall asleep on the sofa around 8:30 p.m.. Grandpa then carries them all to bed, I tuck them in and pull the covers over them as they snuggle down and sleep sweetly all night long. LOL LOL LOL
In truth, that does not work. They can beat us in the staying up late game. I’ll wake up at four in the morning (as us older people often do), come downstairs and tell the older two to shut off the video games and go to sleep! They will then wake up around 10 a.m. and I will feed them breakfast (in bed), then they will play outside for a while, eat lunch, and take a nap.
Grandparents are supposed to spoil the grandkids!
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