All of his life John from Cape Breton had heard stories of an amazing family tradition. It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 19th birthday. On that day, they'd walk across the lake to the boat club for their first legal drink.
So when John's 19th birthday came around, he and his pal Corky took a boat out to the middle of the lake. John stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned.
Corky just managed to pull him to safety. Furious and confused, John went to see his grandmother.
"Grandma, it's my 19th birthday, so why can't I walk across the lake, like my father, his father, and his father before him?"
Granny looked John straight in the eyes, and said, "Because, you idiot, your father, grandfather and great grandfather were born in January, you were born in July."
