A guy was walking along the beach in San Diego one day and finds a very 

                old oil lamp.  He picks it up and rubs it and poof! out comes a genie in a 

                puff of smoke.  The genie says, "I'm getting tired of this!  You're the 

                fifth person today who has bothered me.  I usually give three wishes but 

                because I'm so tired I'm only giving one wish.  So think hard and make it 

 

                a good wish because it's all you're going to get!" 

 

                The guy thinks for a minute and says, "You know, I always wanted to go to 

                Hawaii but I'm afraid of airplanes and boats so I could never go.  If you 

                could build me a bridge from San Diego to Hawaii I could drive my car 

                across it anytime I wanted to.  That's my wish...a bridge from here to 

                Hawaii." 

 

                The genie says, "A BRIDGE FROM HERE TO HAWAII!!!  Are you crazy!!!! Do 

                you know how many pilings I would have to drive, how deep they would have 

                to go into the ocean floor...there aren't that many pilings in the whole 

                world.  And think of all the steel that it would take to build a bridge 

                hundreds and hundreds of miles long.  No, I'm sorry but I'm too tired to 

                do all that.  You'll have to make a different wish." 

 

                The guy thinks again and says, "Ok.  I've always wanted to understand 

                women.  What makes them the way they are?  Why do they suddenly go from 

                being happy to being blue?  What makes them cry?  Why do they get mad at 

                me when I didn't do anything wrong? That's my wish...I want to understand 

                what makes women tick." 

 

                The genie says, "Now, about that bridge.  Did you want two lanes or four?"