You guys are forgetting the catch to it. Whatever you wish for may not come the way you wish. Usually it will cause strife to someone close to you. In a way the wishes are zero-sum. To grant your wish they take something from someone else. Like in the story they wished for money, and they got some. Yet their son died in a facotry accident and they got compensation for it. Or something like that...*last time he read it was in grade 8*