Jeff watched in horror as his wife, Ally, sliced her tee shot through a window of a mansion adjacent to the golf course. “I warned you to be careful,” Jeff sneered. “Now we’ll have to go over there, apologize to the owner and find out how much that lousy drive is gonna cost us.”
The couple, rolling their golf bags, trudged up to the mansion and knocked on the front door. A sonorous voice said, “Come on in!”
When Jeff and Ally stepped inside, they saw chunks of glass scattered all over the floor and a broken antique bottle lying on its side. A man reclining on the couch asked, “Are you the idiots who broke my window?”
“Uh, yes, we are,” Jeff admitted. “My wife and I are sorry about that.”
“No apology is necessary,” the other man declared. “I want to thank you. My name is Raj. I’m a ge nie, and I had been trapped in that bottle you broke for a thousand years. Now that you’ve released me, I’m allowed to grant three wishes. I’ll give each of you a wish, but if you don’t mind, I’m going to keep the last one for myself.”