A day in the life of social work - atypical

Our large-ish office is generally silent, other than the unmistakably industrious typing-clatter of job applications. Today, the drone was disturbed by what was eventually identified as conversation.

It was found to be discussing the well-explored topic of ‘which super power you would choose to be’ as a useful tool in mental health assessments of new clients. It was soon realised this only encouraged grandiosity, the kind of thing people often attended our team to ‘cure’. Although why you would want to stop thinking you ruled the world is beyond me. Discovering you don’t, while coping with the profound side effects of anti-psychiatric medication, is a long fall indeed. Anyway…

We began exploring our own choices of special power, while a few office detractors (presumably close to job application closing dates) tutted at the liveliness.

We were, ironically as Social Workers, eschewing the socio-politics of the X-men, who are of course birth defective and had no choice in their abnormality.

I chose a super power of unlimited wishes, which some card reminded me I already had. I quickly changed it to instantly gratified wishes. Pressed by team members in the advanced stages of work avoidance, I found my first wish would be to enable George Lucas to make less of a pig's ear of the (new) ‘first’ Star Wars films. What amateurish law allows an established character, ie R2D2, to have powers in his past that he no longer uses in his future? What do you mean he can fly in episode 2? Would this ability have not changed the course of episodes 4-6? Beside, this is my childhood he's dicking around with (for want of a far better phrase). I could have spent my childhood allowing R2D2 to fly. Bastard. (Lucas, not Deetoo)