In reply to Rick Wicklin.

It's true! When my daughter was about 10, she realized that all of my grandmother's children were born in mid-September to early October. She knew pregnancy lasted about nine months so she counted backward and came up with a rather personal question for my grandmother. She thought she'd catch my grandmother off guard, but she got a little surprise when the conversation went like this:

Daughter: Grandmama, why are all of your kids born in September and October? Couldn't you and Granddaddy find some other way to entertain yourselves in December and January?

Grandmama: Well, you know we were pretty poor back in those days, and I couldn't afford to buy Granddaddy a present for Christmas... so I just had to give him what I had lying around the house.

Daughter: Oh. Ohhhhhhhh... ewwwww!

Grandmama: ::cackles uncontrollably::

;-)