Could you be a father and not know it?

[TheWizardOfMudd]

Or do you have a story about when you were surprised to find out that you were a father?

I traveled widely during my extended youth and had a number of one night stands. I feel pretty fortunate that no one has appeared at my doorstep exclaiming, "HI DAD!"

Anybody else?

[teach1st]

1. Hi, Dad!

NT

[TheWizardOfMudd]

5. LOL!

[bearfan454]

2. Not me, but I can see how it could happen.

You never know.

[Nevernose]

3. She's eight now

And I'm still pretty shocked. It's, like, the only time I wasn't wearing a rubber.

Her: "Oh. Those pills. I stopped taking them because they made my tummy upset."

[TheWizardOfMudd]

4. You know what's crazy?

My sowing occurred in the seventies. Nobody used rubbers or bothered to ask if there was any protection.

The worst thing that ever happened to me was the clap and crabs, once each.

[Nevernose]

8. Dad? Is that you!?!

Ahhh, the good old days. You really COULD be my father. "Yep, I remember when we didn't wear any of those things on our pieces. No AIDS then, by God, it was a rocking time. If it was wet and warm, we stuck it in..."

[tigereye]

13. we all had very little sense in the 70s

[TheWizardOfMudd]

14. Very little? True. But we had enough.

[tigereye]

15. we did have some...

but boy college was an exercise in foolishness for me. ;)

[aquart]

6. Not me, of course, but grandpa........welll......

It was only mentioned maybe once or twice.....Grandpa never said no and he was always asked......and another daughter....? And perhaps some events down south from his days as a peddler?

I'll say this: the guys in the family never tell the girls in the family. Which sucks.

[JohnKleeb]

7. happened to my cousin

my cousin is 45 and turned out he has a 20 year old son and the son is now married with a kid on the way which will make my nana a great great grandmother.

[Wapsie B]

9. I don't think so, but

I did have a close call a few years back. I had lost track of an old girlfriend. We drifted apart for various reasons but did email every once in awhile. One of the last time I talked to her she told me that she had miscarried awhile ago. And that she had been with no other man since the night we spent together. So I had a pretty good idea that I got her pregnant.

[smada]

10. I had a girl tell me she was pregnant with my baby

once, but I had to remind her that we hadn't even had sex yet.

[pfitz59]

11. Who knows?

Lived in pre-aids 70's... Sowed a lot of seeds..

[rocktivity]

12. On one of the very rare occasions that I watched Jerry Springer

they were doing paternity tests. One of the guys said, "I didn't come here to yell, scream, or fight. If the child is mine, I will be his father in every sense of the word." Apparently, his only problem was that the mother slept around so MUCH. Well, the test proved the child to be his, and after pausing for just a few seconds, he requested to meet his son!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Radical Activist]

16. The idea scares the hell out of me

But its unlikely. I've been pretty careful and selective about who I'm with.