Bubba had long heard the 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 birthday. On that special day, they'd each walked
across the lake to the bar on the far side for their first legal drink.
So when Bubba's 21st birthday came a round, he and his
pal Jim Bob took a boat out to the middle of the lake, Bubba
stepped out of the boat .... and nearly drowned! Jim Bob just barely managed to
pull him to safety.
Furious and confused, Bubba went to see his grandmother.
'Grandma,' he asked, 'it's my 21st birthday, so why can't I
walk 'cross the lake like my pappy, his father, and his father before
him?'
Granny looked deeply into Bubba's troubled eyes and
said, 'Because your father, your grandfather and your great
grandfather were born in January, when the lake is frozen,
and you were born in July, you dummy.
