If You Were to Actually Get Three Wishes, You Should Go Nuts With Them



My son Ian decided that if you make it to "your thirties," then you should be rewarded with three wishes, but when I asked him what he would wish for, hoping for some crazy-ass imaginative kid stuff . . . zombie armies, world domination, interplanetary battle ships, and such, but his wishes turned out to be fairly lame: first he said he would wish for a time machine, which had promise, but then he said he would use the time machine to "make a plane ride to Florida seem like three minutes" which resulted in me lecturing him in the style of Louie C.K. and then he wished that "he could visit all fifty states" with his family and his buddy Ben-- which was sweet, but entirely within the realm of possibility without squandering a magical wish-- and then he finished up with the completely mundane and cliche desire to "live a long and healthy life."

3 comments:

rob said...

he should wish for a suit made of cockroaches, just in case

Dave said...

holy cow, i've got to put that story in sentence form! thanks for the reminder.

rob said...

it's one of my favorite college stories. among the ones i can remember.

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