Akpos and Kwame met at a bus stop and struck up
a conversation. Kwame kept complaining about his
family problems. Finally, Akpos said to Kwame, "You
think you have family problems? Listen to my
situation:
"A few years ago, I met a young widow with a
grown-up daughter. We got married and I got
myself a stepdaughter. Later, my father married my
stepdaughter. That made my stepdaughter, my step
mother. And my father became my stepson. Also,
my wife became mother-in-law of her father-in-
law. Much later, the daughter of my wife, my
stepmother, had a son. This boy was my half-
brother because he was my father's son. But he
was also the son of my wife's daughter which made
him my wife's grandson. That made me the
grandfather of my half-brother. This was nothing
until my wife and I had a son. Now the half-sister of
my son, my stepmother, is also the grandmother.
This makes my father, the brother-in-law of my
child, whose stepsister is my father's wife, I am my
stepmother's brother-in-law,my wife is her own
child's aunt, my son is my father's nephew and I
am my OWN GRANDFATHER!"
