It’s one of those hypothetical questions everyone has thought about, but tonight roommate MR and I had a detailed discussion of what we would do with three wishes.

The quick consensus: one involving virtually infinite money and one involving a super power.

Neither of us wanted eleventy billion dollars sitting in the bank, but enough on a regular basis so that we would never have to worry about money.  My wish would be to randomly fall into sums of money as I needed/wanted, but have the confidence that such events would always happen.  MR wants $1 billion deposited in his bank account every January 1.

I argued that his would be wayyyy more fun if the yearly deposit happened on a random day.  Imagine the thrill of checking your account balance each morning.

As for super powers, he went with the ability to breathe in both outer space and underwater, while I would wish for the ability to read minds.

The third wish took a lot more thought, since with the other two in our pocket we would already be able to do so many things.  But after a while we came up with something we couldn’t buy or obtain with our powers — a time machine.

Not just any time machine, mind you.  Ours is not prone to the stereotypical sci-fi convention where stepping on a bug during the dinosaur ages forever alters every moment that follows.  It’s completely safe, meaning that we can show an iPad to Ben Franklin and blow his mind without the Cubs suddenly winning the World Series.

I’m pretty sure I could be king of the cavemen if I traveled back with some root beer floats:

Delicious photo by AV

Of course these plans assume we don’t have other concerns, like trying to woo a girl with a pet tiger.