(On New Year’s Eve with the entire family)
Me: How many brothers and sisters do you have?
Dad: Um technically nine, but two died during the war.
Me: That’s a lot of siblings. I thought you only had seven…
Sister: Did you know that mom had eleven [siblings]?
Me: What?
Dad: You know, that’s what people did back then when there wasn’t any television.
Everyone: *awkward laughter*