how to avoid hitting a key to pass the "Welcome to GRUB!" message ?

[Joe The Smoe]

Hello List,

I have installed a Debian Wheezy (which uses grub version 1.99-27) on a
new laptop and while Grub is able to properly boot the OS, once the
"Welcome to GRUB!"  shows, it stays paused as long as no key have been
pressed, which I find annoying. I've tried different settings, read
documentation again and again but cannot figure out what's wrong in my
configuration.

If anyone has already met that "problem" and has a solution I'd be glad
to head about it! :)

Thanks
Joe.