Jennifer is on her lunch break. She has a box of things inside her basement that belonged to her late husband Ronald. She met him in college during a retro themed party. He wouldn’t stop talking about his love of 1940’s-1960’s technology especially jukeboxes. He really liked table top ones and wanted to collect as many as he could. A lot of people saw Ronald as a dork for this (it didn’t help he was a math major) but Jennifer thought this “dorky” quality on top of his kind nature was cool. They got married shortly after graduating college and Jennifer had Jason when she was 22. Sadly his Jukebox collecting would be stopped by a violent bout of stage 4 metastatic thyroid cancer. Then her parents died shortly after and it was hard for her and Jason but they became stronger. She wanted to build a homage to her late husband with the jukeboxes creating a little museum of them for Jason with stories about his father. She has been working on this project for about a week.
She went down to the basement to work. She then saw a new jukebox it looked like the others but it felt weird when she held it. It was a table top one and had CUEI engraved on it. There was not a brand of that name before in the collection. She looked up the brand and couldn’t find anything and checked the boxes to see if he had more. She then saw something odd a weird box with the same logo.
She opened it to find two coins with the same logo. She found two notecards in it.
“Hello this is the CUEI machine. It can grant wishes the only limit is your mind. You will find coins in the box. Each coin equals one wish and the coin will reappear in the box after 365 days.”
The other one read
“P.S. a word to wise this machine can cause “disturbances” if used incorrectly so use with caution”
“Ron you sci-fi nerd you”
Just out of fun she used a coin and to her surprise the machine turned on despite not having power.
“Holy shit this is real!”
She tried to think of a wish nothing too crazy. She feared this machine could pull some genie bullshit on her.
“I wish that my basement wall colors would change from white to pink.”
She heard and clinck sound and like that her basement wall colors changed from white to pink.
“Wow this is a lot to take in”