Family Problems

July 3, 2014

[NKP_Vet]

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, and we got married. Later my father married my stepdaughter. That made my stepdaughter my stepmother and my father became my stepson. Also, my wife became mother-in-law of her father-in-law.

"Then the daughter of my wife, my stepmother, 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 grandson. 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 stepmother, is also the grandmother. This makes my father the brother-in-law of my child, whose stepsister is my father's wife. I'm my stepmother's brother-in-law, my wife is her own child's aunt, my son is my father's nephew and I'm my own grandfather!

"And you think you have family problems!"

[jsanders2001]

That was a clever song...: )

[ken5050]

I was thinking about the first time I took my son out for a drink. We walked down to the local pub..only a few blocks from the house.

I got him a Foster's...he didn't like it, so I drank it.

Then I got him a Guinness. He didn't like that either..so I drank it.

I figured..OK..he's not gonna be a beer drinker..so I got him a Glenlivet single malt...Nope..he didn't like that either, so I ended up drinking it..

We tried a few more..no joy..he didn't like the taste.

I could barely manage to push the stroller home

[AbolishCSEU]

Hmmm. My husband’s half brother married his step sister (his father’s new wife’s grown daughter). And then divorced.

[JimRed]

There’s a song that covers this situation, called “I’m My Own Grandpa”.

Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life
For now my daughter was my mother, ‘cause she was my father’s wife
And 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 made me very sad
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow’s grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother

Father’s wife then had a son who kept them 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
‘Cause now I have become the strangest ‘case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa

I’m my own grandpa, I’m my own grandpa
It sounds funny, I know but it really is so
I’m my own grandpa

Songwriters
Dwight Latham;Moe Jaffe

Ray Stevens - I’m My Own Grandpa Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life
For now my daughter was my mother, ‘cause she was my father’s wife
And 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 made me very sad
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow’s grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother

Father’s wife then had a son who kept them 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
‘Cause now I have become the strangest ‘case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa

I’m my own grandpa, I’m my own grandpa
It sounds funny, I know but it really is so
I’m my own grandpa

Read more: Ray Stevens - I’m My Own Grandpa Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Twelve seconds.

[JimRed]

Great minds, with exposure to the great classics...

8^)

[Free Vulcan]

Or as we say in Iowa, just another day in Missouri.

I’ll be here all week...

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

“Or as we say in Iowa, just another day in Missouri.”

God bless you for not saying just another day in Kentucky.

[A Cyrenian]

Make sure you stay north of the state line.

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just kidding, hope you have a great holiday

[Free Vulcan]

I live just over the Missouri line in extreme SE Iowa, so there is no end to the Missouri-Iowa ‘exchanges’. My grandma is from Missouri, and my other grandparents from Alabama, so I can’t say much.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Routine soap opera plots.