Hi
My grandfather [b 1896] told this to me in the early 1980's just as I started reseaching his family and the source is unknown as he picked it up sometime during WW! I believe.
A GOOD REASONA gentleman was one day visiting a lunatic asylum, and while walking in the grounds he met a patient to whom he said:
“Well, my good man, and how did you get here?”
The lunatic replied as follows:
“Well, sir, you see, I married a widow with a grown-up daughter, and then my father married my step-daughter, and that made my wife the mother-in-law of my father-in-law and my father became my step-son.
Then my stepmother, the daughter of my wife, had a son, and that boy was, of course, my brother, because he was my father’s son, but he was also the son of my wife’s step-daughter, and therefore her grandson, and that made me grandfather of my step-brother.
Then my wife had a son, so my mother-in-law, the step-sister of my son, is also his grandmother because he is her step-son’s child;
My father is brother-in-law of my child because his step-sister is his wife;
I am brother of my own son, who is also the son of my step-grandmother;
I am my mother’s brother-in-law; and my wife is her own child’s aunt;
My son is my father’s nephew;
And I am my own grandfather!!
That is why I am in here, sir.”
And we think we have problems, although I do have a branch of my tree this could apply to.
Wendy
