What would you do with a time machine that only worked once?

[Wandering Monk]

(Geez, I hope I picked the right freakin forum THIS time)

You have made a time machine. By the laws of it's function, it will work only once, and never again.
You can only go back into your own lifetime, and you will be yourself in that 'earlier you' for one day.
(til you fall asleep)

What will you do?

(My answer will have to wait, sorry)

EDIT, cuz reasons... it only works for you, attuned to your timeline.

Destroy it before it got used.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I'd travel back to my younger days and play Ghost in the Graveyard again with my friends.

 

[syo]

(Geez, I hope I picked the right freakin forum THIS time)

You have made a time machine. By the laws of it's function, it will work only once, and never again.
You can only go back into your own lifetime, and you will be yourself in that 'earlier you' for one day.
(til you fall asleep)

What will you do?

(My answer will have to wait, sorry)

EDIT, cuz reasons... it only works for you, attuned to your timeline.

People already do that. What's the deal with the machine???

 

[dybmh]

I would go back to the time I was starting college, and try to convince myself to follow my dreams instead of following my parent's dreams.

 

[Alien826]

I'll answer based on the idea that I would simply experience the day without being able to change anything.

For me it would be a day of perfect sexual passion, with no bad experiences interfering.

I'm not sure that ever happened, I'm digging into my memories, but hopefully the idea is clear.

 

[dybmh]

a day of perfect sexual passion

The whole day. Wow, I'm impressed with your apparent stamina.

 

[Secret Chief]

(Geez, I hope I picked the right freakin forum THIS time)

You have made a time machine. By the laws of it's function, it will work only once, and never again.
You can only go back into your own lifetime, and you will be yourself in that 'earlier you' for one day.
(til you fall asleep)

What will you do?

(My answer will have to wait, sorry)

EDIT, cuz reasons... it only works for you, attuned to your timeline.

I'd sell it on eBay.

 

[gnomon]

(Geez, I hope I picked the right freakin forum THIS time)

You have made a time machine. By the laws of it's function, it will work only once, and never again.
You can only go back into your own lifetime, and you will be yourself in that 'earlier you' for one day.
(til you fall asleep)

What will you do?

(My answer will have to wait, sorry)

EDIT, cuz reasons... it only works for you, attuned to your timeline.

It would have been that time I caused nuclear annihilation.

Wait, I just corrected that. Good ol' one time shot time machine.

Thank you very much. Your welcome. If it were true you would never know it.

Yet amazingly, my life is still the same. Luckily, I had a sonic screwdriver.

 

[gnomon]

(Geez, I hope I picked the right freakin forum THIS time)

You have made a time machine. By the laws of it's function, it will work only once, and never again.
You can only go back into your own lifetime, and you will be yourself in that 'earlier you' for one day.
(til you fall asleep)

What will you do?

(My answer will have to wait, sorry)

EDIT, cuz reasons... it only works for you, attuned to your timeline.

Second response...what good will it do to revisit one happy time in my life just knowing that the future lay ahead of me.

And and it definitely would do no good to revisit one instance of regret knowing there are so many.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I was witness to an alleged crime back in the 90s. I'd like to go back and take some pre-emptive actions.
So that's my answer.

 

[Sedim Haba]

So if we go back in time for a day and change something, are you saying that the change sticks? Because if that's the case, then when you arrive in the present, you are tossing the dice a second time. Or maybe I'm thinking of it wrong, I'm not sure

That's exactly why it'll only work once. You no doubt will change something, which will change the timeline. A drastic enough change, you will be completely different when you return.
Oh my, time travel is a *female dog*.

EDIT: Fixed it. Observe only. A lot less fun, but no paradox. But you still only get one shot.

 

[amorphous_constellation]

That's exactly why it'll only work once. You no doubt will change something, which will change the timeline. A drastic enough change, you will be completely different when you return.
Oh my, time travel is a *female dog*.

EDIT: Fixed it. Observe only. A lot less fun, but no paradox. But you still only get one shot.

Well you know what you could do, is write yourself a note. And you could describe who you are, as that person in the future, to that person in the past, who would then read it the next day. I guess the only trouble is, that you probably wouldn't believe yourself, or you'd think you'd had a lapse of memory, to write yourself such an interesting note, that you did not remember writing the day before

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

You will be a specter, a ghost. You can only observe, not change the past.

Well that addition suddenly made it a lot more boring...

In that case, I'ld go back to the summer of 1990.
I was 10 years old and for the first time, reached the finals of a tennis tournament.
I ended up winning the match after a truly mega epic battle that lasted for almost 4 hours.

By the end of the match, close to 200 people were watching us. All the other finals were long finished already and everybody was waiting for us to finish so that they could start the awards ceremony (there were many tournaments in different age categories at that club and all finals were played on the same day). So the place was packed and everybody was watching us in our epic, painful, exhausting struggle.

I ended up winning in 3 sets with a ridiculous tiebreak in set 3. If memory serves me right, it was 13-11 and the other guy had a dozen matchpoints and I save them all.
He had a couple matchpoints in the second set while leading 5-3, which I ended up winning 7-5 after an epic "remontada".
He had another couple matchpoints in set 3 at 5-4 and then again at 6-5 and then again during the tie-break.

I won the tournament at my very first matchpoint.


It was one of my finest moments in life.
I literally fell down from exhaustion when I hit that winning point at the end. My dad had to carry me from the court. Everbody was cheering. Including the parents of my adversary.

I'm even becoming emotional now, just thinking back about it.

I've carried that match with me all my life as a lesson: NEVER give up. The (metaphorical) match is only over when the very last point is played. Not a second sooner.


If I could pick a moment in my life to re-live... that's most definitely it.
With the birth of my kids as a close second.