Wife talking to her husband,who reads newspaper all day: I wish I were a newspaper so I'll be in your hands all day.
Husband: I wish that too, so I could change you daily妻子和丈夫談話,他一天到晚總是看報紙,妻子抱怨説:我要是報紙就好了,那樣我就可以天天在你手裏了。
丈夫説我也希望那樣,那樣我就可以每天換一個了。
NOTE
I wish I were ....是虛擬語氣的説法,表示希望發生但不會發生的。