"I wish you'd cancel that call," Joe said. Reverend Williams found that he couldn't control himself; he told his secretary to cancel the call and hung up the phone. "Now," Joe continued, "I wish that yoyu'd be unable to move until I say otherwise." Rev. Williams tried to lunge for Joe, but only got as far as a standing position before the wish was finished and he suddenly couldn't move.
"I came to you for counseling," said Joe. "I've suddenly found myself in posession of an awesome power, and I wanted to make sure I was using it the way I should. I was telling you what I did because I wanted to know if what I was feeling was right or wrong, but your reaction showed that you aren't even qualified to answer. You jumped to so many conclusions I don't know why I bothered to ask you in the first place. I never said anything about forcing anyone into sex; you just assumed that. I never said I was going to force transformations on anyone; you assumed that too."
Joe sighed. "I...I wasn't going to do this, but I know that if I just let you go you'll just go and tell my mom like you were planning to. If this is wrong, God forgive me, but it's something I'm going to do. I wish that you would be unable to tell anyone about what we talked about just previously. Furthermore, I wish that my next wish would change reality so the wish's effects will be perceived as having always been that way. I wish you'd become..."