Timing Is Everything

Here’s a funny to get your week started. I don’t know where I originally saw or heard it.

It seems a boy from northern Minnesota was approaching his 21st birthday and he was looking forward to maintaining a family tradition he’d heard so much about as he was growing up. He had kept hearing how his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 21st birthdays to the boat club across the lake for their first legal drink.

So when the big day came, he and his pal took a boat out to the middle of the lake. He stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned. His friend managed to pull him to safety.

Furious and confused, he went to see his grandmother to find out why he couldn’t maintain the family tradition and walk across the lake on his 21st birthday like his father, his father’s father, and his father before him had done.

There really was a simple explanation. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all born in January. He was born in July.

Timing is everything.

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