Wishing For More Wishes

Me and the boys were at an outdoor ice cream shop last night for a treat. They were both over at a table with a couple of new books, and I was standing in line to order. Calfgrit4 comes up to me and says, “Daddy, do you have any money?”

“Um, yeah,” I said. Was he thinking of how I was going to pay for the ice cream?

“Can I have it?” he asked.

“Why?”

“I want to make a wish,” he said.

There was a small fountain in front of the shop, with lots of coins in it. “Oh, OK,” I said. I dug into my pocket and pulled out some change. I had three pennies, and I gave CG4 one of them. He ran off to make his wish.

A minute later, he came back to me. “Calfgrit7 wants to make a wish, too,” he said. I gave him a penny to take to CG7.

When I got our ice cream orders, I took them over to their table. Before I sat down, CG4 asked for “more money” to make another wish. I only had one more penny, and I knew that if CG4 made another wish, CG7 would want to make another wish, too.

“No,” I said, “just one wish per person tonight.”

While they were busy eating their ice cream, I pulled out my last penny. I stepped up to the fountain and tossed it in. I wish that their wishes come true. Maybe that’s cheating the system, but it’s the only way I could think right then to give them both a wish with one penny.

Bullgrit