A man finds a magic lamp and rubs it and a genie pops out and says he’ll grant him three wishes but, being a sneaky genie, says that whatever the man wishes for his horrible shrew of an ex-wife will get double.
The man first wishes for an 8,000 square foot mansion on the beach.
Poof! He gets his mansion and there’s another mansion next door at 16,000 square feet, belonging to the ex-wife.
Next, the man wishes for a billion dollars in various currencies, so he can travel the world.
Poof! He gets a giant pile of money in the foyer of his mansion. He also hears the sound of 2 billion landing on the floor of the foyer next door, a massive windfall to the horrid ex-wife.
He thinks long and hard about his third wish and finally says to the genie “I’d like to be beaten half to death.”
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