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What Monkey Paw Wish would you be willing to take?

For those who don't know, a Monkey Paw Wish is when you get your wish granted, but in an unexpected usually negative way.

Example:

  1. I wish human caused global warming would stop.
  2. It does, but because WW3 leads to Nuclear Winter.

The question here though, is what wish would you be willing to take even though it'll get monkey paw'd?

So basically you don't care if the consequences, or would be willing to take the sacrifice for it.

Others can come up with the negative scenarios if they want and the original wisher can decide if it's still worth it

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  • I actually just had this happen to me irl. My old office was colloquially referred to as "The Dungeon" bc it was in the basement of an old dark campus building and to get there you had to take a somewhat circuitous path. I pleaded with my boss to move us to a new space with windows.

    A few years later, we were able to move into a new suite in a different building with the rest of my department. Our new office even has windows! Except they're interior windows that face out into other surrounding rooms, instead of exterior windows bringing in natural light which unfortunately I didn't specifically mention in my wish. šŸ˜‚

  • Don't you have 3 more wishes?

    1 - I wish everyone had a monkeys paw

    2 - I wish everyone had a genie that granted 3 wishes

    3 - I wish the person who broke off the big end of a wish bone could grant one wish they desired

    4 - I wish everyone who saw a falling star could make one wish come true

    5 - I wish every cat and dog had a safe loving house to live in

  • The one Guillermo and Nandor drafted in what we do in the shadows. Mostly because it's already prepared to be safe, not because I particularly care for the outcome.

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