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The Magic Shop

What to do?

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You are Reginald a 73 year old man, father of a beautiful daughter and grandfather of 2 wonderful boys.
You lost your wife 4 years ago to cancer. Afterwards your now 45 years old daughter insisted you move in together with her family.
Her husband is 47 and the two boys are 16 and 12.

Your daughter had insisted you get a phone in case anything happened to you on your walks. You grandsons had drilled the operation and how to download apps into your head if you wanted to or not. But regardless, you are not yet trusting this new app completely so you selected yourself.

||A 73 year old widower wondering about the marvels of modern technology||

Yes, that sounded very much like yourself. You selected ||wondering|| and replaced it with ||knowing||. Information about the most recent technological trends flood into your mind. All the knowledge about computers, the internet, smartphones, apps and more was suddenly available to you. You also know that this app is indeed magic and not just something anybody can use.

Deciding that you need to get home and think this newfound power through you leave the shop again. Changing inanimate things shouldn't be too bad, though. On the way home through the park you decide to open the app again and select a tree

||A 54 year old oak enjoying the afternoon sun||

Changing ages has been on your mind ever since that tutorial suggested it to you. You select ||years|| and replace it with ||month||. Suddenly the formerly tall tree is replaced with a shorter and a lot thinner one. You had selected that nobody else besides you (and the tree) should be aware this time and looking around nobody seems to have noticed the tree reducing in age drastically.

For your first change you had everybody aware, so that makes you wonder if anybody would now be surprised by your newfound knowledge. Well, it's nothing you couldn't explain away. You leave the tree behind and make it the rest of the way home.

"Grandpa!" your enthusiastic grandson Ben shouted from the couch where both he and his brother David sat. David seemed to be occupied with playing the Playstation... Wait Playstation? You were sure it was a called a Nintendo. Ah, you had been mistaken all this time.

From the kitchen came the voice of your daughter "How was your afternoon walk, dad? Discover anything new?". You would never lie to her, so you say yes. "There was a shop I had never seen before. It said that it sold 'magic'. I didn't buy anything from it though, you know me." Technically true after all.

Some other small talk and you excused yourself to your room. Sitting down in the chair new to your record player you open the app. The 15 feet were enough to still show a bit of the living room. Indeed you could actually select Ben, while unable to select David.

||Your grandson watching his brother play a racing game||

Huh, it seems to register your relationship to the target. Well, changing your grandson would be a little extreme. You press back and are returned to the map screen. You select yourself again.

||A 73 year old grandfather thinking about what to change about himself||

Hitting the nail on the head again.


What do you do now?


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