The Lamp.

A man is walking along a California beach when he stumbles across an old lamp. He picks it up, rubs it and out pops a genie. The genie says, "OK, so you released me from the lamp... blah blah blah ...but this is the fourth time this week and I'm getting a little sick of these wishes, so you can forget about three. You get just one wish."

The man thinks about it for a while and finally says, "I've always wanted

to go to Hawaii but I'm too scared to fly and I get very seasick. So could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over there?"

The genie laughs. "That's ridiculous," he says. "Think of the logistics. How would the supports ever reach the bottom of the Pacific? Think of how

much concrete....How much steel !!!! No way! Think of another wish."

The man is lost in thought for a full five minutes. Finally he says, "I've been married and divorced four times. My wives have always said I don't care and that I'm insensitive. I wish I could understand women. To know what they're thinking when they give me the silent treatment, to know why they're crying, to know what they really want when they say "nothing"...."

The genie says: "You want that bridge two lanes or four?