A family tradition

**voodidit** · 10-06-2004, 09:04 PM

Jeremiah had heard stories of an amazing family tradition. It seems that his father, grandfather and 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 Jeremiah's 21st came around, he and his pal Dwight took a boat out to the middle of the lake. Jeremiah stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned. Dwight managed to pull him to safety. Furious and confused, Jeremiah went to see his grandmother.
"Grandma," he asked, "it's my 21st birthday, so why can't I walk across the lake like my father, his father, and his father before him?" Granny looked into Jeremiah's eyes and said, "Because your father, grandfather and great-grandfather were born in January; you were born in July.