Originally Posted by Cougrrcj

Back when my oldest niece was born -

The wife and I had just gotten a 8mm camcorder as a Christmas present for ourselves. WOW. Then a week later, my niece came along. Wife and I go to the hospital - with the camcorder - to take video to send to my parents who were wintering in AZ. Their first grandchild.

Wife and get to the hospital just after Niece is born. We are told to go to the recovery suite. They wheel my sister in on her hospital bed, her husband in tow. We engage in smalltalk, filming everything. Then the nurse brings the niece in - and the nurse asks "Do Grandpa and Grandma want to hold the baby?"

A word here - my sister is two years younger than me, and her husband is a year older than me. Yet I get taken as Grandpa? Back then, I used to grow a beard in the Winter since I delivered mail on a walking mail route. My beard had a few strands of gray in it. Wife had her hair frosted. I was 32, wife 33. I quit growing a beard in the Winter, and the Wife quit frosting her hair!

That was 25 years ago.