Tough Luck
A beautiful fairy appeared one day to a destitute refugee claimant
outside the NY immigration offices.
'My good man,' the fairy said, 'I've been told to grant you three wishes,
since you just arrived in NY with your wife and three children.'
The man told the fairy. 'Well, where I come from we don't have good teeth,
so I want new teeth, maybe a lot of gold in them.'
The fairy looked at the man's almost toothless grin and -- PING !
-- he had a brand new shining set of gold teeth in his mouth!
'What else?' asked the fairy, 'two more to go.'
The ref ugee claimant now got bolder. 'I need a big house with a three car
garage in Manhattan with eight bedrooms for my family and the rest of my refugee
relatives who still live in my country. I want to bring them all over here..
' PING ! - In the distance there could be seen a beautiful mansion with a
three car garage, a long driveway, a walkout patio with a BBQ and swimming pool in an upmarket
neighbourhood.
'One more wish', said the fairy, waving her wand. 'Yes, one more wish.
I want to be like a New Yorker with hip clothes instead of manjams, and a baseball cap instead of this turban.
And I want to have white skin like an American and live like an American.
' PING ! - The man was transformed, wearing worn out jeans, an I love NY T-shirt
and baseball cap. He had his bad teeth back and the mansion had disappeared from the horizon.
'What happened to my new teeth?' he wailed. 'Where is my new house?'
THIS IS GOOD .......
The fairy said
'Tough luck, Now that you are American, you have to fend for yourself.'
And she disappeared!
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