# One wish, guaranteed to come true - what's your wish? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725 "2013-04-03T12:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/101 "2013-04-08T13:52:12Z")
To find and pick up a hundred dollar bill on the ground every day for the rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/102 "2013-04-09T11:43:39Z")
To be a more powerful genie Seriously, probably to live healthily and with my mental faculties intact for as long as I wish. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/103 "2013-04-09T16:10:49Z")
Hmmm…only one wish. I’m torn between health and wealth. Either a guaranteed minimum after-tax income from legal sources of no less than $10 million, or total health; all diseases gone, I never get sick again, perfect hearing, perfect vision, etc. I’d have to flip a coin on this. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/104 "2013-04-09T16:29:34Z")
I’m feeling like a dick today. I would wish that saying you’re allergic or sensitive to something causes that allergy or sensitivity to manifest. So, if you actually already are sensitive to gluten, nothing happens, but if you’re just hopping on the food trend du jour, sucks to be you. ---
**Author:** ![H\_dog\_3\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@H\_dog\_3\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H_dog_3_13)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/105 "2013-04-09T20:08:49Z")
Be with my girlfriend forever ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/106 "2013-04-10T02:38:26Z")
Detailed knowledge of the World History for the next 227 years. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/107 "2013-04-10T02:49:05Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Can we wish for ten more wishes? That is not permissible – in [Runescape](http://www.runescape.com) the amount of what you can wish for is limited. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/108 "2013-04-10T03:15:06Z")
Time enough at last to read all my books… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725.md?page=5)