Family Problems

[Bez]

Two men met at a bus stop and struck up a conversation.

One of them kept complaining of family problems. Finally the other man said: "You think you have family problems? Listen to my situation.

A few years ago I met a young widow with a grown up daughter. We got married and I got myself a step-daughter.

Later, my father married my step-daughter. That made my step daughter my step-mother. And my father became my step-son. Also my wife became mother-in-law of her father-in-law.

Much later the daughter of my wife, my step-mother, had a son. This boy was my half brother because he was my father's son. But he was also the son of my wife's daughter which made him my wife's grand-son. That made me the grandfather of my half brother.

This was nothing until my wife and I had a son. Now the half sister of my son, my step-mother, is also his grandmother. This makes my father the brother-in-law of my child, whose step-sister is my father's wife. I am my step-mother's brother-in-law, my wife is her own child's aunt, my son is my father's nephew and I am my OWN GRAND FATHER!!!!!!!!!!

And you think you have FAMILY PROBLEMS

[Sheryl]

:wah: Love it! I've heard it as a song too, will have to go look for a link to it.

[Sheryl]

oh yea, I love your new AV, it's sooo colorful. :-6

[Bez]

Sheryl wrote: oh yea, I love your new AV, it's sooo colorful. :-6


Hi Sheryl...I'm a bit 'fickle' with my AVs....like to keep changing them. I've found a new website for 'nicking' pictures.....and of course they're nearly always 'flowery'.:yh_flower

[Bronwen]

Oh, how quickly they forget! A form of the anecdote was originally written by Mark Twain. In 1947 it was turned into a hit song by Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths Moe Jaffe and Dwight Latham, and recorded with great success by Lonzo and Oscar, Homer and Jethro, Arthur Godfrey, Guy Lombardo, and many others, and much later by Ray Stevens. The lyrics appear below. For the music, go here:

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtra ... GRNPA.html

I'm My Own Grandpa

Oh, I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own grandpa

It sounds funny I know

But it really is so

Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Now many many years ago when I was twenty-three

I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be.

This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.

My father fell in love with her and soon they two were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life.

My daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife.

To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy,

I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,

And so became my uncle though it was very sad.

For if he was my uncle then that also made him brother

Of the widow's grown-up daughter who of course was my step-mother.

Oh, I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own grandpa

It sounds funny I know

But it really is so

Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,

And he became my grandchild for he was my daughter's son.

My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue,

Because although she is my wife she's my grandmother, too.

Now if my wife is my grandmother then I'm her grandchild,

And every time I think of it it nearly drives me wild,

For now I have become the strangest case I ever saw.

As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa.

Oh, I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own grandpa

It sounds funny I know

But it really is so

Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Copyright Moe Jaffe and Dwight Latham, 1947