time machine

[theoddz]

This is going to sound kinda hokey, but I'd love to go back to WWII era and be able to watch my mother's childhood (and her adult years, too) best friend, Irma, play in the All Girls Professional Baseball League. I can't remember which team she played with. I'll have to ask Mother again. I'd also love to know what my mother was like when she was young.

~Theo~

[Words]

I'd go back to the day I said goodbye to my Mom and Dad before going to the States for the memorial for Blue's father.

I used to always kiss both of them goodbye and tell them I loved them when we left the house, but for the life of me, I just can't remember saying those words to my father that particular day. Ten or so days later and he was dead - something I only found out upon returning to the UK a couple of days later - and not knowing for sure that I told him I loved him the last time I saw him is haunting me.

On a lighter note...I'd love to go back to Victorian times and wear pantaloons with buttons that undid at the back. That is, as long as Blue could travel back with me and undo them

Words

[MsTinkerbelly]

I would go back to February 21st 2000, and I would take my Dad up on the trip to the Indian Casino because he was off work that day for our Presidents day holiday.

If I had played hooky that day and gone with him, when he died that day in the middle of the Casino, he would have not been surrounded by strangers.

It's my only regret in life.

[GreeneyedMe]

I would love to go back to the Renaissance period...be a "real wench" for a bit...hehe, then for sure stop in the 1920's to try out the flapper thing!

Then back to the 80's to do some real headbanging at rock concerts again! Of course I would have to grow my hair out....hmmmmm...nope.....lmao.... Fun stuff!

[macele]

remember how it felt to run wide open at the age of say 10. barefoot, green grass and nowhere to be but right there, ... running. the energy! i want to feel that energy again. i want to run to creedence clearwater revival lol, ... run through the jungle! feel the energy of a child, again. that would be a most outstanding time travel for a day.

you all have great time travel. thank you for sharing. to be able to go back and say things i wish i'd said to family and others. or to change events. or to get to know my mother and father as a child. all of these are wonderful. love all of your answers. very touching. just like i had hoped. this is one of the things i like about this group. sharing emotions, ... in all sorts of ways.

[FemmeBibliophile]

I would simply go to the 50s. Because of my beliefs about women/femmes, I think I'd fit in best there. Most feminist women of this era hate me. Think June Cleaver.

I believe we should be in the kitchen cooking, barefoot and pregnant, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, etc... While our butch/FtM counterparts are out working, fixing the car, and doing the yard work.

Hate me now. I'm okay with it.

[macele]

(buys FemmeBibliophile a one way ticket to the 50's and points to the time machine) if that's your time travel wish.

[BullDog]

Originally Posted by macele

(buys FemmeBibliophile a one way ticket to the 50's and points to the time machine) if that's your time travel wish.

She may need to get pregnant in the present time first (unless going the heterosexual route) and any FTMS needing surgery probably need to get that now as well before being "beamed back." I could think of a few other things as well.

[Julien]

As a side note, I just finished the book, The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma. This novel takes place just after the publication of H.G.Wells The Time Machine and looks at time travel as influenced by Wells' novel. It is a great read and I highly recommend it. Now back to the discussion.

[Rockinonahigh]

I would go back to 1966,I was all of 17 going on 30,lord I thought I knew it all.I didnt think things thrue about my first marriage,I had doubts and would have not done it excep for mom siad I wasnt going to walk out on this cause this was keeping the family respectable( cause of me being queer).I should have hauled azz and never looked back.

[Graham]

back about thirteen years ago....to stop the big hurt in my life right now.

[Nomad]

father's day 2010 - i'd have shown up even if i had to walk every damn mile

25 october 1996 - i'd say "dont do it because i'll hate you every day afterward if you do. and i dont want that. because i love you so much."

summer 2010 - i'd have said, "that's it. i'm done."

1 january 2011 - i'd say a whole lot of different stuff than i said after "i'm so glad you're here." and i'd have said it differently for months.

spring 2012 - i'd have stepped outside my comfort zone and pushed that kiss in the kitchen farther; i'd have spoken louder when i made that invitation on the back stairs.

june 2012 - i'd never have left home

july 2012 - i'd have knocked

august 2012 - i'd have understood the irony of driving east rather than west

[DMW]

I would like to go back in time and use it as a tool...
To Assassinate...serial killers and dictators like...hitler, mussolini, stalin and
napoleon ...Kill all of the assassins that assassinated the leadersthat had positive influence on the world...before their lives were taken from the world....like medger evers and MLK and Lincoln and kennedy and the other kennedy....dreaming. At least we have their words in books and their deeds and their history.

[Rockinonahigh]

One thing I really want to go back in time for is to find out the facts of my bio parents spliting up and what I was abandoned by them.There was a lot of going in and out of court by my grand parents and an aunt that raised me.I need to know if my twin passed when we were born or is she still alive but I have never been able to find out the facts.The only thing that would be diffrent is about my sister,the rest is what it is.I say that but finaly im in therapy for all the lies and trouble it caused...yes it marked me.

[macele]

Myrlie Evers is still alive. Medgers wife. i remember a speech she gave after the trial of Byron De La Beckwith, ... finding him guilty of murdering Medger Evers. this was in 94, maybe. heartfelt speech. i would like to just be around her. no time machine needed.

[Ashton]

I wouldn't want to go back and try to change things in my life, because one of two things would have happened, I'd have found different ways to screw it up &/or consequentially I would have changed the course of events the moved all the people I have met out of my path of travel. Of course I would have met others but whose to say they would be as great as the ones that have accumulated in my life now.

In actually thinking this out I don't believe I would want to move around in time. I'm a hopeless romantic and for me the past is alive from a romantic perspective and to see it as it really was would lift that veil and it would tarnish it for me.

Let me just add that I'm not an idiot or an ostrich with my head in the sand. Both my parents where historians and I have seen/read/heard a lot of what the past is really like but as my mother used to tell my dad..."the past is a better place in his mind, he knows the truth, let him glorify the things he wants."

[weatherboi]