# Well, I'm a Grandpa! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174 "2010-02-16T05:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/21 "2010-02-18T02:23:05Z")
Congratulations, Grandpa! And where are the pictures? When my former doctor became a grandfather for the first time, he went around telling everybody it was great except for one thing – he had to sleep with a grandmother. His wife told him that could be fixed. Enjoy the little one. And be sure to save the stories of how he peed on you, to tell him and his friends later. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/22 "2010-02-18T02:33:22Z")
Congratulations! Are you going to be the cool grandpa that takes him fishing and camping and on road trips when he’s a little older? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/23 "2010-02-18T02:44:31Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/24 "2010-02-18T03:21:43Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > The kids not even 24 hours old and my wife is already in the spoiling mood! > > We just celebrated 30 years at the end of January, so this is a nice anniversary gift. > > Thanks for the responses folks!🙂 It took her 24 hours, kinda slow. Congrads Gramps. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/25 "2010-02-18T14:25:53Z")
> [@Salem](#): > > I was a grandma (or a nana, to be precise) three years ago at the tender age of 48. My second grandson is due in May. Would rather be a little on the younger side to keep up with them. Of course, I also have a 9 year old son… What’s a 9 year old doing having kids? Man, kids these days … ☹ no, was not whoosed, I understand that she has older children that provided her with the grandchildren. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/26 "2010-02-18T18:14:07Z")
My dad had to wait until he was sixty-five to be a grandpa. He was starting to get worried. I’ll never forget the look on his face when we heard the kid crying(we’d snuck down the hospital corridor and were eavesdropping at the door where my sister was in labor.) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/27 "2010-02-23T05:45:47Z")
Nah, you’re probably a [granddude](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=552151&page=2) (post 82). I myself am a greatuncledude x 2. p.s. how the heck do you cite to an individual post? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/28 "2010-02-25T04:52:50Z")
You have now entered the absolute best time of your life! Take notes and make a jillion photos. I wrote about the day one of my granddaughters was born in great detail including the kind of remark you made in the baby’s ear. Then I gave it to her when she graduated from high school. She wrote to me that it was the only gift that really _meant_ anything to her. And remember, grandparents never say, “NO!” BTW, have you noticed that you have a long gray hair growing out of the mole on your chin? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/29 "2010-02-25T17:48:27Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > BTW, have you noticed that you have a long gray hair growing out of the mole on your chin? No. It was growing out of my earlobe! Sonavabitch was almost 2 inches long!:eek: And it seems to have sprung up overnight! Where did that come from? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/30 "2010-02-26T00:40:06Z")
You’re a dude? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/31 "2010-02-26T02:20:04Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > And turn down that blasted music, ya bunch of rotten punks! > > The problem with these kids nowadays is… > > they’re too young! > > Last night when I left the hospital I whispered in the babies ear “I have to leave now. I’m gonna go home and bang your Grandma!” My wife told me I was now officially a dirty old man. How right she is. And I’m going to be one until i’m a dead old man!😃 Yow really need to teach your grandchildren The Shocker. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174/32 "2010-02-26T14:16:10Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > No. > It was growing out of my earlobe! Sonavabitch was almost 2 inches long!:eek: > And it seems to have sprung up overnight! Where did that come from? Meh - it don’t matter! I still think you’re hot! 😃 Congrats, dude!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-im-a-grandpa/529174.md?page=1)