# What's your wish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495 "2007-03-19T00:14:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/21 "2007-03-19T05:44:57Z")
I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener. Actually, I wish I didn’t have to work for a living, or at least that I worked at something I love doing. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/22 "2007-03-19T06:33:25Z")
I wish I had a lot more money. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/23 "2007-03-19T06:58:28Z")
I wish my condo would sell. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/24 "2007-03-19T07:06:45Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] I wish I wasn’t being micromanaged. [/QUOTE] I wish I was micromanaging **Anastasaeon**. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/25 "2007-03-19T07:30:13Z")
I wish I didn’t have to live with constant feelings of self-doubt. I realize that I’m a not unattractive, intelligent, even witty person, but I don’t feel that way. I feel like a total fraud 99 percent of the time. Barring that, I’d really like some chocolate ice cream. Or a Saab. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/26 "2007-03-19T07:41:13Z")
I wish I could be with the one I love as more than just a friend. This unrequited stuff sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/27 "2007-03-19T07:46:05Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] I wish I was micromanaging **Anastasaeon**. [/QUOTE] Get a room 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/28 "2007-03-19T07:51:47Z")
I wished I had more workdiscipline, more social skills and that I was 30 kgs lighter and loved sport. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/29 "2007-03-19T09:37:52Z")
I wish I could complete the script I’m working on to my satisfaction and sell it for enough to pay off my car and all my credit card debts and put a downpayment on a home. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/30 "2007-03-19T09:39:13Z")
I wish I were a bestselling author with a smoking hot wife. Not so much to ask, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/31 "2007-03-19T10:17:38Z")
Ten million quid. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/32 "2007-03-19T12:35:50Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] I wish Colorado was closer to California. [/QUOTE] Me, too! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/33 "2007-03-19T13:02:39Z")
I wish my husband wasn’t being laid off. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/34 "2007-03-19T13:12:41Z")
I wish I could finish all the homework I have without staying up so late. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/35 "2007-03-19T13:19:09Z")
I wish to be out of debt with a financially future ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/36 "2007-03-19T14:05:23Z")
To sort of paraphrase Jim Croce: > [@](#): > > But there never seems to be enough time > To do the things you want to do > Once you find them I wish I had more time to do things I want to do now I’ve found them. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/37 "2007-03-19T14:15:59Z")
I wish I was in the land of cotton. \*not really I’m quite happy here in Merrie England. I do wish I was 25 years old again…knowing what I know now ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/38 "2007-03-19T14:22:16Z")
I wish there was some way of knowing what I want to be when I grow up… ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/39 "2007-03-19T14:39:38Z")
I wish I knew what I want to be when I grow up. Y’know, now that I’m fifty! :dubious: Direction, that’s it, I wish for some direction! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/40 "2007-03-19T15:07:26Z")
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