Wait! The countdown didn't stop even though he wanted it to?
But he wanted and wished super hard!
When you feel poopy and wish to magic special things really really hard your poopy feels are supposed to go Poof!
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I mean, unless you're not a 5 year old; if you are not a 5-year-old, or some other infantile-minded child, you wouldn't simply assume that everything works the way you want it to work simply because you want it. I can't understand how this person could be so fucking stupid, and yet at the same time... they are able to walk and think and breathe simultaneously!
Ordinarily somebody with this level of fucking dumb would be unable to breathe while thinking, or walk while thinking...
TL;DR:
He doesn't seem terribly smart, honestly.