When you wish upon a star...

It's an ugly day. I wish it would be nice again.

And speaking of wishes (see what I did there?), there are a lot of ways to make wishes. You can see a shooting star, see the first star of the night, blow an eyelash off of your finger, blow the candles out on a birthday cake, throw a penny into a fountain, throw a penny into a well, break a wishbone, and many, many more things. However, according to common wish-law, if you tell someone what your wish was it won't come true (which is why newly 13 year old boys don't share their embarrassing birthday wishes involving Jessica Alba). However, I find that this age-old wish-law has a problem:

Any clever child
Can find the loophole with the
"it won't come true" law.


Seriously, think about it. If you tell someone, your wish won't come true. So all you need to do is wish in the negative. For instance, if you want a unicorn, rather than wishing for a unicorn, you need to wish that a unicorn won't magically appear out of nowhere. Then, when you tell someone and the wish doesn't come true, a unicorn will appear out of nowhere! It's as simple as that. Now hopefully this knowledge will not fall into the wrong hands and result in pre-teen boys getting their giant killer robots. That could be bad. Unless we had enough wizards and dragons to counter them. That would actually be pretty awesome.