This young man was going golfing one day, but he wasn’t very good. He had been hitting the ball in the rough, the water, and soon a sand trap. By the time he hit the sand trap he was very annoyed.
So he stood there swinging at the ball but missing and in the process digging a hole. Soon he hit something hard (not the golf ball). He bent over and dug it up to see what it was.
When he had it uncovered he found an old oil lamp. He thought to himself, and began to rub the lamp. To his surprise and delight a fat old Genie came from the lamp in a huge puff of smoke.
“Wow ten-thousand years in a lamp!! I have soo many things to do and to see!!”, exclaimed the Genie. “Now I know you want your three wishes, but I am going to be very busy, so if you write them down on a piece of paper I will get to them as soon as I can.”
The guy thought that would be fine, so he wrote down his three wishes, gave them to the Genie and went home.
A couple of weeks had passed since the encounter and the man had begun to forget about the Genie and his wishes. One day the man was at his house when the doorbell rang. There was a UPS man at the door with a very large package for him. The man signed for it and took it inside. He opened the package to find that it was a huge box of Dates and Grain cereal.
“Dates and Grain cereal, where the hell did this come from,” he wondered.
The man began looking through his things to see if he could find out where he had asked or ordered a huge box of Dates and Grain cereal. While he was looking he came across his list of wishes. He looked at the first wish, 1: A Great Dane. “No, he thought to himself. He couldn’t be that dumb.” The Genie had given him Dates and Grain cereal instead of a Great Dane.
“Oh well, anyone can make a mistake,” he thought.
About a week later the man received another package, he signed for it and then opened it. He found a Zebco fishing rod.
“What is this, when did I get one of these,” exclaimed the man. He thought about what happened last time he got a package that he didn’t know about.
“My second wish was for a fast car not something that casts far!! That damn Genie!”
The next day the man was at his home when there was a knock at his door, he opened it and there was a guy standing at the door.
“Hi my name is Blob, Joe Blob, and I will be with you every saturday night from now on!”