The Sad Wife’s Wishes
One day a woman was walking along the beach thinking of the sad state of her life, for her husband had just told her that he wanted a divorce. As she was walking, she tripped over something in the sand.
The woman picked the object up, revealing a lamp. The woman rubbed the lamp and a genie appeared before her.
“I will grant you three wishes,” the genie said, “but whatever you wish for, your husband will get double.”
The woman thought and thought, then made her first wish. “I wish for 10 million dollars.” POOF! The wished for ten million appears at the woman feet, while some distance away, 20 million dollars appears at her husband’s feet.
The woman thinks again and makes her second wish. “I wish for a pile of diamonds three feet high!” POOF! A
pile of diamonds appears at the woman’s feet, and a pile of diamonds six feet high appears at her husband’s feet.
The woman thinks and thinks, ponders and ponders, and finally says to the genie “Now, whatever I wish for my husband gets twice of?”
The genie replies, “That’s correct.”
The woman gets a big smile on her face and makes her third wish. “I wish for you to scare me half to death!”