A Phone Call

[inspired by a current VW Passat commercial]

If you could call yourself in the past and speak for only 30 seconds, 'when' would you call yourself, and what would you say?

I'd call myself when I was 11. Right before the hockey game where I broke my leg. And say "Whatever you do Don't play in that game today"
see then I would most likely be playing hockey now instead of not being able to play anymore:mad:

last summer and i would have told my slef not to work on that model car that made me cut off half my thumb

I would call my Past Self at the point where I was signing up for several credit cards and say "WTF were you thinking?????"


*I am proud to say now that all those have been paid off now :)

30 seconds before i was about to head home on the day that i got my "careless driving" ticket just for hitting a patch of ice, i would call and say "don't get in that damn car!"

i wouldnt call myself at all.........becuaes that might screw up everything else for me.............

Call myself at 15 and say: Don't waste your time on her and save all the money you can so you can buy a Lancer Evolution.

p.s. If I could call myself in a way different from VW, I'd give myself some good stock tips and sports scores. :devil:

I would call myself just before I went to fill out forms for a student loan and tell myself to think twice before I filled them out :(

Call myslef when I was 25 and tell myself not to get in that car (Which ended up with a Milk tanker in the drivers side and me in hospital for 2 months:(

i'll take a different angle...

since i don't really want to change the past, i'd call myself from tomorrow night, and tell my current self the winning powerball numbers. that way i'm not changing the past, i'm making the future how i might want it!

Originally posted by ac427cpe
i'll take a different angle...

since i don't really want to change the past, i'd call myself from tomorrow night, and tell my current self the winning powerball numbers. that way i'm not changing the past, i'm making the future how i might want it! Well... You can't call the future (it's not in the 'rules'), but what you said is the same as calling yourself yesterday night with today's winning numbers... Same diff... You'd only be altering one day's worth of past...

I would call myself the day i was building a model car and say

"Don't use plyers to open that paint bottle"

if i had the chance too i wouldn't have this today.

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I've thought about this before, and I can't imagine the conversation starting any other way

Me: Hello, Sean speaking
Me: oh hi sean, its me, sean
Me: errmm... what?
Me: Im sean
Me: no your not i am
Me: Im sean from the future
Me: Bugger off
*click*

Originally posted by jay@af
Well... You can't call the future (it's not in the 'rules'), but what you said is the same as calling yourself yesterday night with today's winning numbers... Same diff... You'd only be altering one day's worth of past...

except, as far as the "me" of right now knows, nothing will be changed, it will happen for the first time. it would change for the other me, that doesn't exist in this timeline, i guess... the difference would be that a lot of you are saying that you would change what would happed by talking to yourself in the past, mine would be making something happen because someone from the future told me how to do it. you're telling yourself, i'm listening to myself...


wow that made no sense!:bloated:

Call myself at 15 and say: Don't waste your time on her and save all the money you can so you can buy a Lancer Evolution.

I feel that bro...I also would make a call at 15 and say don't bother with her, the perfect girl is just a few more years away. Dang that would've saved me alot of trouble. :(

I would call myself at 22 and say get rid of your girlfriend before you marry her and have kids. Buy a Ferrari because if you do not have the girlfriend you could afford it. Don't buy the jetski because it will just stop working correctly and Yamaha will do nothing to help you get it fixed even though you bought the extended warranty, and defiantely do not try a back flip on the wakeboard because you will break your leg in two places and have screws in your ankle the rest of your life.

I would have called myself on the evening of June 2, 2000, and issued a warning that if I went out that night, I was a few hours away from doing $6K of damage from my Integra.....

That or I would have called myself in college and urged myself to be a male prostitute and gotten all the ass that I could while I was there!!! :D

I think I would call myself right after I got out of High School and tell myself to major in Computer Science, not Accounting. Still not finished with this stupid Accounting crap. :mad:

I'd call myself with the winning numbers for the just drawn Lotto
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I'd call myself before I accepted my current uni position, telling him to become a ski bum and live the dream instead.

You know what? I think I might actually get a list of the names of the people who died in the Sept. 11th attacks, and call myself with that list of people to call. I know that's a lot of calls (3,000!), but who else could I call? Port Authority of NY and NJ? The White House? It is hard to know who could have been contacted to convey the threat seriously, and have it responded to as such. Who knows, maybe such threatening calls were actually made beforehand, and the fact that they were made has been covered up, so as to not create a media scandal.

I truly can't decide.First instinct is to say call myself 1n 1986 and say 'don't take this girl out,it'll end in tears'.Or perhaps I could ring myself the day before Phil died,and say to myself 'Mate,it doesn't matter if he is your boss,if you see him acting strangely,call someone who can help him.'.Perhaps I could go back to 1979 and tell myself that the Navy is not half as much fun as the television recruiting makes it out to be.Maybe I could ring myself a thousand different times with a thousand different pieces of advice,but in reality,I'll make the best of what's on offer based on the decisions that I've already made.This is not a 'dress rehearsal'.:)

I would call myself on Thursday May 25th, 2000 and tell myself to blow off my date for Friday night (the next day).

i would call myself in the 6th grade and tell myselfnot to sit by the kid that yelled he had a boner in the middle of class. damn people in that class said it was me!:angryfire :angryfire :newburn:

well since im kinda young i would call my self a couple of years ago wene i was like 7 and my weed smokeing cousin was about 17 and told my self not to race him with my big wheel thing agnst his bike...he hit me i hit a tree flew of the bike thing i was riding hit my head on the asfalt busted my head and got two staples in my head :eshooter:

Id call myself on March 13, 2003, at 12:03:09, and tell me "Tell Heather to not go to Trevors cottage this weekend. If she goes, go up there saturday morning at 7, and wait for them to leave. Then dont let her go on the ski hill, because she'll die at 11am" At the time, who'd have known in 23 hours she'd be dead?

I rather like the old analogy, if you save one life, you save the world. I think the world is worth one 30 second phone call to the past, but He apparently doesnt.

Originally posted by Chris
Id call myself on March 13, 2003, at 12:03:09, and tell me "Tell Heather to not go to Trevors cottage this weekend. If she goes, go up there saturday morning at 7, and wait for them to leave. Then dont let her go on the ski hill, because she'll die at 11am" At the time, who'd have known in 23 hours she'd be dead?

I rather like the old analogy, if you save one life, you save the world. I think the world is worth one 30 second phone call to the past, but He apparently doesnt.

wow