Amos Pike was well known as a local loser and for his love of the brew.
However, anyone would have traded places with him on the day Lady Luck lay
herself out before him. On this day, as any day, Amos was half in the bag, staggering along the beach, with a beer bottle in his hand, when he tripped over the neck of a bottle which was nearly completely buried in the sand. He stooped over, picked it up, and proceeded to wipe the sand off of it. The bottle started to shake and smoke, and then in a poof of smoke a Genie appeared. "Lard Geeze," said Amos as he dropped the bottle. "I AM THE GREAT GENIE OF ANCIENT BAGHDAD!!! YOU HAVE FREED ME FROM THE BOTTLE AND YOU SHALL BE GRANTED THREE WISHES!!!" bellowed the Genie. "Owsey gettin' on Cockey?" said Amos. "Where you from? St. John's?" "THREE WISHES!!!" bellowed the Genie. "WHAT IS YOUR FIRST WISH?" Amos, noticing the beer bottle in his hand was empty, said, "All right Cockey, lets see if you're as good as you say you are. How about a beer bottle that's always full." Poof. A full bottle of beer appeared in his hand. Amos guzzled it down, followed it up with quite an impressive bealch, and was overjoyed to see that the bottle was still full of beer. "Right on Cockey!!. See ya later!!" said Amos as he started to walk away. "WAIT A MINUTE," said the Genie. "WHAT ABOUT YOUR OTHER TWO WISHES?" "Oh yea, right on," said Amos as he guzzled another full beer, followed by another bealch. "How about two more of these." |