# What do you wish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 25, 2001, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810 "2001-02-25T08:07:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/41 "2001-02-25T22:28:03Z")
> [@](#): > > From The Exordium Universe by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge Oh yeah! That’s right! I read that one to my daughter last night, right after we got done with _Go Dog, Go!_ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/42 "2001-02-26T02:23:39Z")
more things I wish: -That all the episodes of _My So Called Life_ and _The Simpsons_ would come out on DVD, along with _Wayne’s World_ -That my job would go back to being all programming and no managing -That my company’s stock price would go back up -That Wizards of the Coast would get smart and let more people help out designing Magic: The Gathering cards -That Robert Jordan would go back to writing books at the speed and quality he did back in the early 90’s -That the democratic process worked better -That I had regular people to play volleyball and softball with, and more regular racquetball partners -That I got along better with my friends -That I had more opportunities to do fun things like canoeing, white water rafting, etc. Also, that I got off my ass to do things like build houses for Habitat for Humanity more often -That Nuclear Fusion would become cheap and plentiful -That I had as much energy for building fun things out of legos and making paper airplanes and so forth as I used to when I was a kid -That all my friends and relatives from the east coast would move to the west coast, so I could see my college buddies and cute baby cousins way more often -That I never had to shave -That _Hoagie Haven_ in Princeton, New Jersey, would move to Redwood City, California ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/43 "2001-02-26T02:39:35Z")
I wish this board would get an “Ignore Poster” function. ---
**Author:** ![AngelD112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@AngelD112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelD112)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/44 "2001-02-26T02:45:18Z")
I like what Juniper200 had to say, but since that’s already taken, I’ll think of something else. Right now I wish that he would come online already, or if that won’t happen, I wish It didn’t bother me so much that he wasn’t online. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/45 "2001-02-26T05:21:59Z")
I wish I could come back here. I wish I had more time. I wish I didn’t have a reason to leave. I wish I could fade away. ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/46 "2001-02-26T05:40:23Z")
Hmm for me it’s pretty simple I wish the Fafsa homepage would work so I could fill out my financial aid info before the March 1st deadline I wish that my girlfriend could see out of both of her eyes again I wish my car was fixed I wish my girlfriend would have enough money to come to college for sure next year ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/47 "2001-02-26T05:54:39Z")
I thought about this for so long… Then I realized how terribly selfish I was being… So, in true fairy-tale fashion… I’ll just wish you all a good day and a long happy life. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/48 "2001-02-26T10:05:02Z")
I wish Anya from BtVS would jump my bones. Several times. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/49 "2001-02-26T10:13:57Z")
I wish I could tell you what I wish… ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/50 "2001-02-26T12:31:35Z")
I wish that it was 168 days later then it currently is. ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/51 "2001-02-26T12:51:06Z")
I wish my father were still here to see his grandchildren growing up. I also wish he were here just so I could talk to him again… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/52 "2001-02-26T13:23:49Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Mauvaise \* > \*\*\* [I wish] I could get that song out of my head now. (Thanks **Juniper** and **Kayeby** ) 😃_\* Ditto, dammit. I wish…that I was the sort of person I always knew I could be… ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/53 "2001-02-27T01:37:49Z")
I wish I was farther south than I am now. I wish I could get my poetry published. ---
**Author:** ![kirk280980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@kirk280980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk280980)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/54 "2001-02-27T02:11:07Z")
I wish I took that job I was offered a year ago, but turned down because I didn’t think I could afford to move and live on my own. I kick myself daily over that. I wish I didn’t have to live a double life, and pretend to be straight around my parents. I wish I had a better job, so I could afford my own place to live, and have someone special to share it with. I wish my cousin didn’t go out for a drive in his car that night. He never came back, and I still miss him terribly 10 years later ☹ ---
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/55 "2001-02-28T18:31:32Z")
1. I wish that someone would pay me an insanely large amount of money to do whatever I want whenever and wherever I want. 2.) I wish that people would be more tolerant, loving, and accepting of others. 3.) I wish I could find a decent man who wouldn’t try to control or dismiss me like I’m some kind of a pushover, or feel threatened by the fact that I’m a strong, independent, well-educated, reasonably self-actualized, free-thinking, creative individual. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/56 "2001-03-01T01:04:57Z")
I wish\* [ul] [li]that I had been more outgoing in my 20’s.[/li] [li]that my grandfather was still alive. He would have liked my kids and husband.[/li] [li]that I could stop carrying the flame, once and for all, of that special guy I was engaged to back in the 80’s, who turned out to be such an incredible shit and broke up with me on Christmas Day, which also was my birthday. :wally[/li] [li]that I had a lot of money[/li] [li]that people IRL would be more polite and mannerly[/li] [li]that I was smarter and had more ambition[/li] [li]that Robert Jordan, Diana Gabaldon and George R. Martin would write faster.[/li] [li]that a new episode of BTVS, Angel and Sopranos was on anytime I wanted.[/li] [li]that I could videotape dreams[/li] [li]that I had superpowers and could time travel.[/li] [/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/57 "2001-06-30T01:53:03Z")
I wish my headache would go away. I wish I could be happy for longer than an hour at a time. I wish I didn’t look so bad after I cry. I wish I was graceful. I wish **Catalyst** wouldn’t lurk so. I wish I had someone with me always. I wish I could die whenever I want…then spontaneously resurrect when the time is right. I wish life was like it was on Tv. (ok, kidding on that one.) ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/58 "2001-06-30T02:23:02Z")
I wish I was 12 years old again. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/59 "2001-06-30T02:31:20Z")
1. I wish I knew which of the girl posters who flirt on the SDMB were really serious. 2. I wish I could control time. 3. I wish death could always be clean. 4. I wish Blockbuster would realise that I would rather wait a month or two to see a new video release than pay nearly $5 for a rental. 5. I wish it was easier to meet girls. 6. I wish I knew why no one bothered to reply to a question I asked here a while back. (Dreamworks logo origin) ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810/60 "2001-06-30T02:55:24Z")
I wish it were January of 2001 again. I was so happy then…so euphoric, really. I wish my mom were here…I wish she didn’t die and leave me. I wish for all the people I care about to be happy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish/55810.md?page=4)