A Phone Call

[Jay!]

[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?

[Amish_kid]

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

[supratuner]

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

[KatWoman]

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

[Suislide]

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!"

[Graphik Styles]

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

[Twist]

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.

[tonioseven]

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

[Jimster]

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

[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!

[Jay!]

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...

[RaceMySS_454]

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.

[Sean]

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*

[ac427cpe]

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!

[whttrshpunk]

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.