My 16-Year-Old Self Responds To Advice I'd Give My 16-Year-Old Self If I Went Back in Time

[robotnik2004]

(For mgrasso and ivan23, and the meme going around.)

1. You're not the boss of me.

2. I don't care how much I'll regret it, I just want a girlfriend.

3. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exercise, posture, flossing, rest my eyes. I'll get right on that. No, I don't need to write it down, I'll remember.

4. I don't care how crazy she ends up, I just want a girlfriend.

5. OK. But historians make lots of money, right?

6. I don't care what she burns down, I just want a girlfriend.

7. Listen, what I want to hear about most is Star Wars. Is it really true there are going to be three prequels? And are they totally awesome? Like I even have to ask. I can't wait to see George Lucas work his magic again!

8. OK. But you- I mean me- I mean, we're a Republican, right?

9. Wait, that I will write down: go to the Hong Kong, in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 10, 1999... talk to the girl with short hair, funky glasses (did you just say "funky"?? who are you supposed to be, Jimmy JJ Walker?), and tight gray sweater... How tight are we talking here?

10. Well, thanks for all the advice. Do you think you could score me and my friends some beer?

Comments

[chris-goodwin.livejournal.com]

I have, since I was about 14, had a standing deal with myself that if I ever met my future self, and he told me to do something, I would do it without question.

[mysteriousrhino.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I remember thinking that if my future self showed up I would be happy to get the help.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

But what if it's not really you? What if it's someone pretending to be you, in order to screw the future you up? Like, you're supposed to kill Sarah Connor, and the future her finds out and sends someone back to pretend to be you and keep you from fulfilling your destiny?

[mysteriousrhino.livejournal.com]

Ooo. Good point. Maybe I had better make up a code word that only my future self and I will know.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

That's a very good idea. Safety first when messing with timelines, and all. I have a friend who says that the only safe thing to do if you see yourself walking down the street is kill it, because you know that's what the other you's thinking, and if it's not thinking that, it's not you and needs to die.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Then again, this is the same friend who is making plans for the house that she and her husband will someday buy to be fully zombie-fortifiable.