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This is a tough one. My first instinct is 1 hour nap = 8 hours of sleep because I’d get sooooo much done. But if you think about it, that means I’d be doing a lot of “work.” Who wants more work? No one. We want more “play.” How am I supposed to “play” if no one else is on my schedule? What’s the point of being up at 3 am if everything is closed and everyone else is asleep. I think I’d get bored, even in New York City or Las Vegas.

My next thought was super speed reading, but I’m worried this is like a genie in a lamp. You make a wish, and it’s manipulated to be a curse. Sure, I’ll be able to speed read, but there’s no guarantee I’ll retain the information. Add retention to the mix, and you have my answer, but as written,I don’t trust it. Most people’s brains can retain only so much, so a lack of retention seems to be a necessary consequence of the power. That severely limits its value.

Telekinetic power limited to only 5 lbs doesn’t help much. It’s a parlor trick that would get old really quickly. Perhaps it’s marketable as a street performer, but I don’t want to be a street performer, not even for a few extra bucks.

Invisible every Tuesday is right out because it’s mandatory. My job would be pretty pissed off with me if I showed up to work invisible every Tuesday, but even if it were a weekend, I think it’d still suck. I just don’t even see it as a good thing at all.

That leaves my clothes always clean. Useful, which means boring, but it’s the only thing without a downside. Unlike reading, I don’t see any necessary downsides. Sure, a genie could say, “Surprise! You always stink!” Or perhaps, “But you must wear nothing but underwear!” Those would be cheats, though. Stench certainly don’t follow having clean clothes; quite the opposite.

I have to go with A. I don’t like it, but them’s the breaks.

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