In the Year 2029
Today, Speedy posted a letter from himself from 2029.
Well, I don’t have a letter from myself, but fortunately I have this handy little time viewer that lets me see into the future. Or the past. But, it’s the future we want to see, so let’s take a look.
Don’t get too close! I think it may be radioactive. My hermit crabs, when I had them anyway, used to glow in the dark.
So, let’s see what we see… Incidentally, this post is post #1829, so let’s hope our time viewer doesn’t get too confused. Hold on, let me adjust the controls… Okay, here we are looking at 2029.
There’s me, standing in the local amphitheater. You’ll notice I don’t look any older than I do today. That’s because I’m a cartoon. Thus, you can see the benefit of being two-dimensional.
Well, there’s clearly no crowd, so I think we can ask myself some questions.
“Hey you! It’s me!”
“Who?”
“Me! Don’t you remember having this conversation with yourself?”
“Oh, is that today?”
“Yes. So, still living in Ohio?”
“Yeah. We get taxed out the wazoo here, but so does every place else, so it wasn’t worth the effort to move anywhere.”
“What’s the weather like?”
“It’s fine. The whole global warming disaster thing never happened, but we’re still paying taxes to fight it.”
“No one’s at the park?”
“The city needed money–we’re a city now. So I bought the park. Now I chase away kids, yelling ‘Get off my lawn!’ I find that amusing.”
“Anything else happening?”
“I just got an eMail from Slowcat–you know him as Speedcat but he calls himself Slowcat now. He says he’s writing a letter to himself for delivery in 2009. Like he can send a letter into the past. He’s still nuts.”
“He did do that, you know.”
“No, he made that all up. He doesn’t look anything like that photo he allegedly sent himself. For one thing, he doesn’t even wear pants these days. He moved to Texas too. He lives next door to Deborah.”
“Do you have any good stock tips?”
“Oh, yes! There’s one that’s around $10 right now in 2009. Buy 100 shares of it. It’s going to hit $625 in four years, but that’s after it split three times! It is…”
Ack! The time viewer shorted out. Argh! You know, you’d think I would have remembered this and mentioned the stock name earlier. Oh well.
Simply put, this was the GREATEST post in 20 years. You better be careful because Biff is going to steal that time box - he told me and Marty.
I don’t even know what to say about this post. But maybe I shouldn’t be posting a comment here anyway - should I go back in the past and do it then? Or maybe into the future so you can find it later? This post is stressing me out. So forget it, I’m not gonna comment after all.
Yes, but can you travel time sideways rather than back and forth. I’ll be impressed when you do that.
Slowcat, please stop popping golf balls over my fence, thanks