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== Real Life ==
* [http://www.homeonthestrange.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4 The Open-Source Wish Project] tries to find perfect, loophole-less wordings for wishes to avert this trope. While it might work against the [[Jerkass Genie]], it doesn't really strike at the heart of the lesson of this trope; if you get exactly the thing you wanted, there's still the possibility you'll find you don't like it.
* In a rough flowchart of the endings for ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', [[BioWare]] writer supposedly noted that he wanted the endings to cause [[Memetic Mutation|LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE]]. He/They got his/their wish; ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'s'' ending is quickly becoming as infamous for being infuriatingly confusing and nonsensical as that of ''[[Lost]]'' and that of ''[[Neon Genesis
* In 2001, the city of Buffalo, NY had no snow in November and most of December, and it was possible that the city would have no snow on Christmas. So on Christmas Eve, everyone in Buffalo wished for a white Christmas. The next day, they awoke to the beginning of a 5-day blizzard that killed 4 people and dropped ''seven feet of snow'' onto the city. Whoops.
* During the years 2005-2006 many people in USA and UK desperately wished for real estate prices to fall. They did fall in 2007 - and we see the results.
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