The Anniversary Fairy

A story about Strategic alliances, tactical awareness, ageism, sexism, being careful about what you wish for and how you go about getting it!


A couple were dining out together celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. 💑

After the meal, the husband presented his wife romantically with a beautiful very old gold antique locket on a chain. 📿

Amazingly when his wife opened the locket, a tiny fairy appeared. 🧚‍♀️

Addressing the astonished couple, the fairy said,

"Your forty years of devotion to each other has released me from this locket, and in return I can now grant you both one wish each - anything you want." 😍

Without hesitating, the wife asked, "Please, can I travel to the four corners of the world with my husband, as happy and in love as we've always been?" 🗺

The fairy waved her wand with a flourish, and magically there on the table were two first-class tickets for a round-the-world holiday. 🎫 🎫

Staggered, the couple looked at each other, unable to believe their luck. 🍀

"Your turn," said the fairy and the wife to the husband.

The husband thought for a few seconds, and then said, with a little guilt in his voice,

"Forgive me, but to really enjoy that holiday of a lifetime - I yearn for a younger woman - so I wish that my wife could be thirty years younger than me." 🤸‍♀️

Shocked, the fairy glanced at the wife, and with a knowing look in her eye, waved her wand... 🎇

and the husband became ninety-three. 👴