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Birthday Clustering
Yesterday my glorious daughter turned 5. Today my radiant son turned 10. In the maternity ward five years ago I quipped to the nurses, "The kids being born one day apart, I suppose I'm only fertile for one week each...
Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
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Category: Children • Humour
Posted on: July 28, 2008 5:35 PM, by Martin R
Yesterday my glorious daughter turned 5. Today my radiant son turned 10. In the maternity ward five years ago I quipped to the nurses, "The kids being born one day apart, I suppose I'm only fertile for one week each year".
Replied one of them, "I think you're probably only romantic for one week each year."
Comments
Hahaha, so which is it?
Posted by: barbara huffert | July 28, 2008 5:58 PM
in the case of my parents, it was generally a cold snap before the heat went on in the fall... all of us were born in july too.
Posted by: peter | July 28, 2008 7:26 PM
Last week you were assuring us you were romantic a couple times a week!
Posted by: Patrick | July 28, 2008 8:16 PM
The nurse was of course just making a sour-grapes comment, and under the circumstances I had little opportunity to show her where things really stood. (-;
Posted by: Martin R | July 29, 2008 2:57 AM
Belated congratulations to the young and bright ones. I must remember to wear my welding goggles when I meet them next week.
Posted by: kai | July 29, 2008 9:12 AM
Thank you! Having met and been impressed by your kids, I have become suspicious. Kai, are you the biological father of my kids too? Or am I the unwitting progenitor of yours?
Posted by: Martin R | July 29, 2008 10:05 AM
When the Only-begotten son was small, he seemed a mix of my brother and the mother's sister, so we wondered whether he was our child at all…
Posted by: kai | July 29, 2008 11:22 AM
How do you expain it when there's clustering across generations? In my family it's in January. There's a cousin on the 21st, sister 22nd, another cousin 25th, my younger daughter on the 28th, my mother on the 30th and son the 31st.
Posted by: eleanora | July 30, 2008 6:25 AM
Synchronised jail time after family-organised robberies?
Posted by: Martin R | July 30, 2008 12:35 PM