A man finds a genie in a bottle and he gets two wishes.

Posted by bourbonpens@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 25 comments

Genie: "What's your first wish?"

Steve: "I wish I was rich."

Genie: "What's your second wish, Rich?"

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selrahc_72@reddit

Rich thinks long and hard and finally says, "My second wish . . . is for unlimited wishes!".

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madkins007@reddit

On an amateur writing site, i tried to get a things going where one author was the genie, and the other was the victim.

For reasons i don't understand, probably a generation thing, the people who wanted to do it kept trying to impose some game mechanics thing on it- dice roles, scoring points, etc.

I just thought it would be fun to have two people try to win at the 'i will interpret your wishes in a totally literal but backfiring way' genre.

When you write a story like this on your own, you've got a plot outline or something. I just wanted to shake things up.

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Plus-King5266@reddit

Someone always has to throw a turd in the punchbowl.

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doctor_x@reddit

“I wish my second wish to be granted in the exact context of which I intend to you to interpret it.”

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Pleasant_Flatworm866@reddit

Watch either version of the movie Bedazzled for a master class in misinterpreting wishes.

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cruiserman_80@reddit

Pretty much the entire mythology of Genies is about their wishes be malicious compliance.

There is an episode of the X-Files where Fox Mulder wishes for world peace so the genie just makes everybody dissapear.

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Plus-King5266@reddit

As my mother frequently told me, “be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.”

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crackrabbit012@reddit

I love how in the end he Mulder wrote up a contract to fix everything. She was genuinely impressed and thought he must have been a lawyer in a previous life.

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I loved that episode. I've referenced the part about the 1 guys wish to bring his brother back to life after he's killed, and the genie just like puts his brothers soul back into his dead body with no other changes, so the brother is just a walking smelly corpse with no heartbeat and can't speak because they are rotting away.

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Professional-Face-97@reddit

“And for your second wish”, the genie says.

“Oh I wish I knew what to wish for.” says the man.

“Wisdom Rich wisdom.” the genie says as he packs up.

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Cold_Table8497@reddit

"No. I meant rich as in money."

"Your final wish is granted, Rich Asinmoney."

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ZebraKernelPan1c@reddit

No, that was the second wish,

I now wish you really unstand what i mean.

"Oh, i see now... " the genie said... and disappeared.

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crash866@reddit

The genie says you have 2 wishes, the Man says ‘I thought I had 3 wishes?’

The genie says ‘Look in your pants, I’ve been doing this for too long and the first with i always the same’

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posophist@reddit

Wouldn’t not changing his name mean that his name remains Rich?