A politician, an oil baron and their pilot crash in the middle of the ocean. They eventually end up on an island, and the three decide to split up and meet back at the beach at sunset.
When they meet back up, the politician returned with 4 fish, the oil baron found what he needed to build an open fire, and the pilot found a mysteriously sealed bottle. With each man getting their one fish, the politician was going to grab the
last fish when the oil baron slapped his hand.
They got into an argument, with the politician believing since he spent all day catching fish, he deserved his extra. The oil baron disagreed and said that he supplied the material needed to cook the fish and so it should be his. The conflict escalated, and as they were about to start a fist fight, the pilot sat back and was nervously rubbing his bottle.
All of a sudden, the bottle's cork flew off, and a huge green genie appeared in front of them, muscular arms crossed in front of him. "You have freed me, weary traveler!" he booms at the pilot. "I was dropped in the middle of the ocean centuries ago, and now, to thank you, I shall give you three
wishes, as is custom."
The pilot stopped the genie and asked if instead of giving him three
wishes if he could give each of them one, with which the genie generously agreed.
The pilot has thought about this before, and he was going to say his
wish, but out of fury, the politician pointed at the oil baron and spit out, "I
wish all greedy people like him would disappear!"
The genie laughed, and was going to grant the
wish, until the oil baron said, "well I
wish all power-hungry people like HIM disappeared!"
The genie looked concerned, and so asked the pilot for his
wish. Thinking for a few minutes, the pilot then tells the genie "I'd like my plane fixed, good as new."
All three look at the pilot, confused by his modest
wish. "You can ask for ANYTHING. Why would you only
wish for that?" says an astonished politician.
"Well, I was going to
wish for world peace," said the pilot, "but you two seemed to have taken care of that."