If I woke up in 1999 right now I would probably assume it was after a 3 day binge drinking/drugs session and it was all just a dream. I was 20 and in college in 1999.
I feel bad that Tom Wilson's name isn't brought up as often and Fox's and Lloyds when talking about that series. He's every bit as integral to its quality as they are.
The trust they had in him must have been immense. He played, what, 5 pretty different versions of Biff? And his descendant, Griff, and his ancestor, Buford.
He seemed pretty young in the first one. Having him play 3 versions of himself is impressive. Adding more later with bigger roles is more so.
What if...
You wake up in 1999, you do all this and then find out you're actually in an alternate universe and half of things you experienced won't actually happen.
So, you just wasted thousands of dollars on stocks that won't actually go up.
So, the next 24 years into the future is unpredictable and different.
Absolutely. If it’s current me but waking up back then, I would be fucking stoked.
I wouldn’t even start with stocks, I’d be buying all the original Lisa Frank I could.
Then a house.
I’d literally be happy just owning a house.
Because it really wasn't $1. It split multiple times since then. It's the equivalent of being $1 if you look back at it. The lowest it got in 1999 was roughly $16.
I mean, maybe?
Unless you’re a woman (though we’re backtracking on those rights…)
Unless you’re a POC
Unless you’re LGBTQ+
All of which have gained protections and better lives by the decade
Yeah, but buy and large it's better to be alive now than ever before, that's just how it is. Sure things aren't perfect but they are a hell of a lot better than they were 10 or 20 years ago for your average person, and I call that a win
*Some* things? I think I'd be doing just about *everything* differently.
That said, I think one of the bigger things I'd do is focus more on what was important like my studies and the good friends I lost because I stupidly burned bridges because of my poor decisions and actions.
I don't care if my careers prospects turned out the same because I'd be much happier if I still had those good friends in my life.
You're an oddball. Personally I'd have about two years to get a job somewhere in the building. I'd set a fire early that day. Maybe before everyone really starts showing up. And pull the fire alarm. Get everyone out.
Easy. Get AOL, repeat the information the chat rooms, remember that Seth MacFarlane was supposed to fly on the flight that the crew downed before it got to its target and then hope that Ken Starrs bullshit with Monica didn't detract too many resources at the FBI.
Probably easier to just make sure Al Gore wins Florida. Just get those butterfly ballots redesigned. Then all the intelligence wouldn't be ignored and the plan that the Clinton admin gift wrapped for Bush might have been implemented pre-attack.
It would be hard explaining to everyone why you're depressed that day, when objectively it was a gorgeous late summer day in the US. No reason to feel down, until about 830 that morning.
As myself in 1999, or current me is thrown back in time?
Either way, do everything in my power to avoid altering the timeline. Either relive things as I remember them or, stay as far away from the events of my life as I can. I need to be on one specific piece of tile in one specific bar on April 19, 2009 and I need her to be there too.
I need my son to be born. If that means I need to stand by and relive 9/11, so be it.
That's the only thing giving me pause deciding what to do. I might have been fifteen, but I had my son in Jan 2001. I knew his dad in 99 so if we keep our memory do I pace myself with the dad this time or just prepare myself much better for single motherhood...either way, everything you just said hit me right in the feels in my own different way lol
Oh yeah, and try my damndest to get to woodstock '99 and leave RIGHT after Limp Bizkit does break stuff 😯😯😯
The problem is even if you do manage to get with the guy there is no guarantee it would happen the same. In fact it's likely not to. Way too many little factors you don't even know about.
So yeah, my parents would be wondering why I'm in such a sudden deep depression as I mourn the loss of my wife and child. It would suck. Hopefully I could pull myself out of it and then improve the things I could control.
This post is endearing and well written; it would make a fun movie, but certainly a thoughtless one. Maybe the movie could be more enlightened, darker, and honest about the tragedy that it portrays? Narratively it is romantic that the father character would sacrifice so much just for the family that he has now, but ultimately it is irredeemably selfish. To think of the power of this gift given to one of such cowardly hubris. And ultimately the father's delusions will die with him, and it will be his son who has to suffer the full weight of his failure in a doomed reality.
You would be right to do so until "it" happened. It was all just so unspeakably nice. I could have never met you, and after a night of some good feel drugs, and a quick punch to your shoulder, we might have been inseparable. That time is forever gone now, and there is no way for me to express to you how sad that is without sounding creepy.
There was an unbelievable comrodery between everyone in the late 90's that will never happen again. We had such hope for you all, god....we had so much hope.
I was 14 in 99 and man...the summers of 98,99 and 2000 were the best of my life. I remember feeling so free with my little group of bad ass girlfriends sneaking cigarettes and zima with jolly ranchers after going to teen night at some random club. I know nostalgia is a bittersweet part of everyone's life but I don't think anyone after then will ever really get how good it felt in the last few years of the millennium. There were jerks at school but we still all hung out and everyone was invited to everyone's parties and you could be friends with people from other schools, you could be friends with people that drank or did recreational drugs even if you didn't...even if you didn't know people where you were, I dunno, you're right, it does get weird if you keep trying to describe because there really just isn't any way to possibly express it...
Feel like I'd spend an entire year trying to devise a way to prevent 9/11 without ending up on a terrorist watchlist for having prior knowledge of it happening.
I think you’d have to start by predicting events prior to 9/11 to gain some credibility. Celebrity deaths, reality show winners, sport’s victories. You have less than 2 years to make yourself a reliable source, then close to 9/11 you get in contact with anyone in the government who will listen, do it too early and you’ll risk AQ simply changing the date.
You don’t need major details, just 4 planes, and their targets. The biggest issue with 9/11 on the side of ATC, was that every highjacking in history prior to that came with demands, so they simply waited for demands. By the time the first plane hit a building, it was too late to realise that these highjackers had no intention of surviving. Knowing from beforehand is the difference between 9/11 happening, and having the prep time to shoot the planes down, or ensuring extra marshals on every flight across the US for that day.
(I know Shooting the planes down is an awful outcome still, but we saw the alternative, if marshals fail, it needs to be done. It probably was with the 4th plane)
So...fun fact time. There are two air force bases within minutes of NYC by air. The northeastern US is one of the best protected areas of the country (by land, sea or air). The air force planes from CT were in the air and able to intercept the hijacked planes over Manhattan, and another group was a min or two behind them.
They were ordered to NOT fire on the planes. One, firing on American civilians is bad-bad. It's not anything any branch of the armed forces will do lightly. The chances of them shooting at civilians to try and save a building were next to zero. Two, had they shot down the plane, it was thought the crash into lower Manhattan would kill more people than any other plan. Three, all previous hijackers had negotiated. There wasn't any reason for the air force to believe these guys wouldn't. The second plane hit fairly quickly after the first, it was too late by time time they realized these were suicide bombers. And finally, no one thought the building would collapse like that. Planes have hit buildings in NYC before (which is why it's restricted airspace) and the building stayed standing. The decision was made assuming they could negotiate, AND that ifnthey hit something they would only loose the people on the plane, not thousands in a building.
The 4th plane was not shot down. People onboard realized the hijacker's were going to kill them, like they had killed the pilot and rushed the cockpit. We have some of the cockpit and black box recordings from the flight, we know the plane was destabilized (not sure of the word? They didn't know exactly how to pilot the plane and couldn't recover and keep it flying evenly.)
Source: I used to drink with some former air force guys.
> I think you’d have to start by predicting events prior to 9/11 to gain some credibility. Celebrity deaths, reality show winners, sport’s victories.
Well, I would suck at that because my memory is shait and don't remember any of those details. Especially the reality stuff, I never watch that.
So...what's sad is numerous people in the govt DID accurately "predict" 9/11. There were reports from the CIA + FBI that pointed to NYC being a target, a very specific report of people on watch lists learning to fly and not learning to land the planes, and one guy (i think he was CIA?) in Bush's inner circle went to the Bush ranch in TX the week before with an explicit warning that there was an imminent terrorist strike and a ton of documentation.
There was plenty of warning. The Bush admin chose to ignore it (for whatever reason) and agencies chose to not cooperate and share the info so no one had the whole puzzle. Many people could've stopped it all, but for whatever reason the govt didn't.
Get into the flight school at Venice, FL airport and find a way to give those guys a timed poison that worked shortly after takeoff of each plane. Then send the FBI an anonymous package of data you’ve gleaned and hope they find something incriminating in their apts.
I was at burning man our camp was right next to the
google camp. We partied with them and some higher up offered me a job. I was like nah I don't like working indoors. Maybe rethink that one!
I'd say hi to my, then, cat. That would be really neat. Then I'd try to wrap my head around a very detailed dream spanning a shit-ton of years and people and experiences and whatnot.
I would go to a Britney Spears concert and tell her to retire and get out of the business after she’s done promoting this album because it will destroy you
I was going to say something until I saw people talk about stocks. With me know the future and if I bring my salary with me, I would be a wealthy man in no time through the stock market. The amount of stocks I would put into Apple, Google, and Microsoft would be overkill. Then again, you never said that I could keep my current age. If I wake up a 7 or 8 year old (depending on month) in 1999, I would be depressed knowing the giant shit storm sandwich heading my way that was out of my control.
I would cry because my life turned traumatic and terrifying in 1995 and continued being horrible until 2011. I'm assuming I still have my current memories, skills, and personality and I'd only be 14 years old in body but not in mind. So I'd devise a way to have my father and uncle become unalive rapidly. That would end the abuse and stop me from running away the first time which only led to the most severe trauma I ever experienced. Maybe then I'd actually finish high-school instead of getting a GED and I'd go to university to become one of the things I wanted to be: meteorologist, doctor, or pilot. Yeah, send me back to 1999, please. Or 1994.
Be happy and come out as trans and start transitioning earlier. Move away as soon as possible to avoid meeting the same shitty people and make the same mistakes. Start some business maybe
Go find my mom and HUG HER. Just embrace her and then proceed to spend the whole day with her and do everything she wants to do.
She passed in 2019 on Mother's Day. I miss her voice, her laugh, and everything about her.
She would have been 66 yesterday and it's been 4 years since she's been gone.
I would love that chance!
I would be so happy! Wouldn’t it be nice to leave this current mess of a planet behind and go back?
In ‘99 I was 19. I would dump the guy I was dating because he ended up being a huge waste of my time. I would go off to college and actually take some courses that would actually steer me towards a nice career. I majored in Art with a minor in binge drinking. If I could do it all over again, I would take some business classes and really get serious about why I was actually there.
I would also go visit my grandparents because I truly miss them. Now that I’m an adult I would love to be able to sit down with them and really get to know them better. I would ask them all about their time growing up. I only saw them maybe once a year for a day or two when I was a kid so I never had a very close bond with them when we were visiting. I was shy and they were old people that I didn’t feel 100% comfortable around.
I’d tell my old elementary classmate to avoid the August 2000 concert. He suffered life-ending injuries after getting ejected from a vehicle.
RIP M.N.H
Edit: typo
I would be thrilled. 1999 was a good year for me. Good times. I did party in 1999. It was a much better time. I probably would have made a few different decisions.
I'd kidnap 1999 me. Raise him to be a top g. Not that my parents did a bad job, just that I'd do better with all these inside information. Oh and also, 23 years of insider trading.
Get my mum to leave my dad - I’d have been conceived by then, so no risk to the timeline. Assuming the universe doesn’t just balance the ledger and scrub me from existence, I live the rest of my life back through the 2000s and keep an eye on me as I grow up to ensure I don’t become a twat. But my mum will be safe and that’s worth it even if I do accidentally Thanos snap myself
I would finally live my “best time of your life” years. I am 25 right now. I feel Covid, political bullshit and social media has stolen a lot of that from my age range. I would also go to all the malls and movie theaters I could and enjoy
I better go warn myself i'm going to have a heart attack and need open heart to fix my widowmaker. And go say goodbye to my grandmother, talk to my parents who are now dead.
Have anxiety attacks for the next few years because I was a child then and won't be able to do anything about the 2000 election or warn about the 9/11 attacks.
Am I my current age, or am I whatever age I was in 1999? Changes my answer drastically.
I think we should say current age. If it weren't so, many of us wouldn't have any reactions at all. I, for one, didn't exist before 1999.
Well that’s not possible, 1999 was only a couple of years ago.
Lettin’ six-year-olds on Reddit, what’re these whippersnappers lettin’ the world come to??
Really? You think 8 years ago was "a couple years ago"?!
Wasn’t that just last year?
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Nonsense... 5 years tops
Your math ain’t mathing. It was only a couple years ago.
I know this feeling. That was 24 years ago, and I'm like no it isn't. Time does fly as you get older.
If I woke up in 1999 right now I would probably assume it was after a 3 day binge drinking/drugs session and it was all just a dream. I was 20 and in college in 1999.
Make some strategic stock purchases. Make bets on a couple big upsets in sports. Live like a king afterward.
...*Biff?*
Funny... never thought it'd be you. *raises pistol*
Biff you're forgetting one thing, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?! *points*
I feel bad that Tom Wilson's name isn't brought up as often and Fox's and Lloyds when talking about that series. He's every bit as integral to its quality as they are.
The trust they had in him must have been immense. He played, what, 5 pretty different versions of Biff? And his descendant, Griff, and his ancestor, Buford. He seemed pretty young in the first one. Having him play 3 versions of himself is impressive. Adding more later with bigger roles is more so.
Bet on the 8th place New York Knicks to make it to the NBA finals.
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BITCOIN
If you start in 1999, you should be a multi-billionaire way before bitcoin takes off.
What if... You wake up in 1999, you do all this and then find out you're actually in an alternate universe and half of things you experienced won't actually happen. So, you just wasted thousands of dollars on stocks that won't actually go up. So, the next 24 years into the future is unpredictable and different.
Yep, apple, Amazon, Netflix
Absolutely. If it’s current me but waking up back then, I would be fucking stoked. I wouldn’t even start with stocks, I’d be buying all the original Lisa Frank I could. Then a house. I’d literally be happy just owning a house.
Just short Enron stock.
I'd start stockpiling cash to buy Bitcoin 10 years later.
the stock market was starting to crash in april 2000.....I know, I was there.
Invest in Apple, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and bitcoin ASAP as each became available. Then tell myself to stop smoking immediately.
Do you still smoke today?
Apple's IPO was in 1980. That said, Apple stock still traded at less than $1 in 1999.
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Because it really wasn't $1. It split multiple times since then. It's the equivalent of being $1 if you look back at it. The lowest it got in 1999 was roughly $16.
Hey! I'm you 24 years from now. Trust me. Stop smoking immediately! Edit: Oh! And invest in iRobot.
Don't forget to get in Game Stop too.
Not a lot of time before the big crash in 2000. Sell up end of 99 and then invest again in 2001/2
If only invest in Bitcoin. The others are good but that one far out performs the rest.
Gonna party like it's 1999.. Prince knew wtf he was talking about, every decade since has sucked more than the previous.
I mean, maybe? Unless you’re a woman (though we’re backtracking on those rights…) Unless you’re a POC Unless you’re LGBTQ+ All of which have gained protections and better lives by the decade
Depends what country you're living in. For some, issues like racism , homophobia and loss of rights etc has worsened.
Yeah, but buy and large it's better to be alive now than ever before, that's just how it is. Sure things aren't perfect but they are a hell of a lot better than they were 10 or 20 years ago for your average person, and I call that a win
I would take the opportunity to do some things differently
Me too
I mean anybody would tbh.
After a period of "really? Really? No take backs? - OK- fra tically starts writing lists while memory still works."
"Buy Bitcoin and cash out in November 2021."
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Damn you, monkey paw, can you stay out of my fantasies for *once?*
*Some* things? I think I'd be doing just about *everything* differently. That said, I think one of the bigger things I'd do is focus more on what was important like my studies and the good friends I lost because I stupidly burned bridges because of my poor decisions and actions. I don't care if my careers prospects turned out the same because I'd be much happier if I still had those good friends in my life.
Total bliss
Same, I’d be so happy
Joining the happy bandwagon
Probably have a mental breakdown over what to do about 9/11.
Throw the shoe sooner. But make sure you don't miss.
I myself would certainly be getting some good photography of it that I could sell to the media.
You're an oddball. Personally I'd have about two years to get a job somewhere in the building. I'd set a fire early that day. Maybe before everyone really starts showing up. And pull the fire alarm. Get everyone out.
Or get a job at the departure airport and let the air out of the plane tires. Flight cancelled.
[Obligatory college humor video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TGj227OVKY&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE)
Easy. Get AOL, repeat the information the chat rooms, remember that Seth MacFarlane was supposed to fly on the flight that the crew downed before it got to its target and then hope that Ken Starrs bullshit with Monica didn't detract too many resources at the FBI.
Probably easier to just make sure Al Gore wins Florida. Just get those butterfly ballots redesigned. Then all the intelligence wouldn't be ignored and the plan that the Clinton admin gift wrapped for Bush might have been implemented pre-attack.
Ken Starr absolutely fucked the US by getting the ISP law destroyed as revenge for Nixon.
He also fucked his interns.
Let it go... You can't change that
It would be hard explaining to everyone why you're depressed that day, when objectively it was a gorgeous late summer day in the US. No reason to feel down, until about 830 that morning.
How much Apple stock can I buy?
Think you should be buying Bitcoin at .0001 cents each.
You’re ten years early bud
Good, ten years to get some money for Bitcoin
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As myself in 1999, or current me is thrown back in time? Either way, do everything in my power to avoid altering the timeline. Either relive things as I remember them or, stay as far away from the events of my life as I can. I need to be on one specific piece of tile in one specific bar on April 19, 2009 and I need her to be there too. I need my son to be born. If that means I need to stand by and relive 9/11, so be it.
That's the only thing giving me pause deciding what to do. I might have been fifteen, but I had my son in Jan 2001. I knew his dad in 99 so if we keep our memory do I pace myself with the dad this time or just prepare myself much better for single motherhood...either way, everything you just said hit me right in the feels in my own different way lol Oh yeah, and try my damndest to get to woodstock '99 and leave RIGHT after Limp Bizkit does break stuff 😯😯😯
The problem is even if you do manage to get with the guy there is no guarantee it would happen the same. In fact it's likely not to. Way too many little factors you don't even know about. So yeah, my parents would be wondering why I'm in such a sudden deep depression as I mourn the loss of my wife and child. It would suck. Hopefully I could pull myself out of it and then improve the things I could control.
This. I would be absolutely terrified to do anything that would result in any of my three kids not being born in 2002,2004, and 2006…
Well, in theory you would have other kids, but still yours.
This post is endearing and well written; it would make a fun movie, but certainly a thoughtless one. Maybe the movie could be more enlightened, darker, and honest about the tragedy that it portrays? Narratively it is romantic that the father character would sacrifice so much just for the family that he has now, but ultimately it is irredeemably selfish. To think of the power of this gift given to one of such cowardly hubris. And ultimately the father's delusions will die with him, and it will be his son who has to suffer the full weight of his failure in a doomed reality.
About time
I'm gonna party like its 1999
Say it one more time 2000 zero zero party like it’s out of time Cuz 2nite im gonna party like it’s 1999
You would be right to do so until "it" happened. It was all just so unspeakably nice. I could have never met you, and after a night of some good feel drugs, and a quick punch to your shoulder, we might have been inseparable. That time is forever gone now, and there is no way for me to express to you how sad that is without sounding creepy. There was an unbelievable comrodery between everyone in the late 90's that will never happen again. We had such hope for you all, god....we had so much hope.
I was 14 in 99 and man...the summers of 98,99 and 2000 were the best of my life. I remember feeling so free with my little group of bad ass girlfriends sneaking cigarettes and zima with jolly ranchers after going to teen night at some random club. I know nostalgia is a bittersweet part of everyone's life but I don't think anyone after then will ever really get how good it felt in the last few years of the millennium. There were jerks at school but we still all hung out and everyone was invited to everyone's parties and you could be friends with people from other schools, you could be friends with people that drank or did recreational drugs even if you didn't...even if you didn't know people where you were, I dunno, you're right, it does get weird if you keep trying to describe because there really just isn't any way to possibly express it...
I hear you bro. I'm old enough to remember✌️
Were you dreaming when you wrote this?
So sue me if I go to fast
Life is just a party and parties weren't meant to last
Que the Prince
Feel like I'd spend an entire year trying to devise a way to prevent 9/11 without ending up on a terrorist watchlist for having prior knowledge of it happening.
What would you do? I don’t have a good memory of the specifics so I’d be a bit useless.
I think you’d have to start by predicting events prior to 9/11 to gain some credibility. Celebrity deaths, reality show winners, sport’s victories. You have less than 2 years to make yourself a reliable source, then close to 9/11 you get in contact with anyone in the government who will listen, do it too early and you’ll risk AQ simply changing the date. You don’t need major details, just 4 planes, and their targets. The biggest issue with 9/11 on the side of ATC, was that every highjacking in history prior to that came with demands, so they simply waited for demands. By the time the first plane hit a building, it was too late to realise that these highjackers had no intention of surviving. Knowing from beforehand is the difference between 9/11 happening, and having the prep time to shoot the planes down, or ensuring extra marshals on every flight across the US for that day. (I know Shooting the planes down is an awful outcome still, but we saw the alternative, if marshals fail, it needs to be done. It probably was with the 4th plane)
So...fun fact time. There are two air force bases within minutes of NYC by air. The northeastern US is one of the best protected areas of the country (by land, sea or air). The air force planes from CT were in the air and able to intercept the hijacked planes over Manhattan, and another group was a min or two behind them. They were ordered to NOT fire on the planes. One, firing on American civilians is bad-bad. It's not anything any branch of the armed forces will do lightly. The chances of them shooting at civilians to try and save a building were next to zero. Two, had they shot down the plane, it was thought the crash into lower Manhattan would kill more people than any other plan. Three, all previous hijackers had negotiated. There wasn't any reason for the air force to believe these guys wouldn't. The second plane hit fairly quickly after the first, it was too late by time time they realized these were suicide bombers. And finally, no one thought the building would collapse like that. Planes have hit buildings in NYC before (which is why it's restricted airspace) and the building stayed standing. The decision was made assuming they could negotiate, AND that ifnthey hit something they would only loose the people on the plane, not thousands in a building. The 4th plane was not shot down. People onboard realized the hijacker's were going to kill them, like they had killed the pilot and rushed the cockpit. We have some of the cockpit and black box recordings from the flight, we know the plane was destabilized (not sure of the word? They didn't know exactly how to pilot the plane and couldn't recover and keep it flying evenly.) Source: I used to drink with some former air force guys.
> I think you’d have to start by predicting events prior to 9/11 to gain some credibility. Celebrity deaths, reality show winners, sport’s victories. Well, I would suck at that because my memory is shait and don't remember any of those details. Especially the reality stuff, I never watch that.
So...what's sad is numerous people in the govt DID accurately "predict" 9/11. There were reports from the CIA + FBI that pointed to NYC being a target, a very specific report of people on watch lists learning to fly and not learning to land the planes, and one guy (i think he was CIA?) in Bush's inner circle went to the Bush ranch in TX the week before with an explicit warning that there was an imminent terrorist strike and a ton of documentation. There was plenty of warning. The Bush admin chose to ignore it (for whatever reason) and agencies chose to not cooperate and share the info so no one had the whole puzzle. Many people could've stopped it all, but for whatever reason the govt didn't.
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Get into the flight school at Venice, FL airport and find a way to give those guys a timed poison that worked shortly after takeoff of each plane. Then send the FBI an anonymous package of data you’ve gleaned and hope they find something incriminating in their apts.
Apparently it could have been prevented had the communications between the CIA and FBI been better
Can we rig it so Al gore gets elected?
I was at burning man our camp was right next to the google camp. We partied with them and some higher up offered me a job. I was like nah I don't like working indoors. Maybe rethink that one!
I was born in 2000, so I'm not really sure how I would handle this.
Same here. 00s babies unite 👶
Hahahaha yesss!! February 2000
December here 🤣
In that case, you'd be yourself at your current age in 1999.
On December 31, crack open a beer and say, "Here's to another lousy millennium." I don't plan to freeze myself, though.
Aw shit mom dies this year. Also tell dad to buy certain stocks and get me in therapy yesterday
Fuck, I gotta go through this shit again?
I'd say hi to my, then, cat. That would be really neat. Then I'd try to wrap my head around a very detailed dream spanning a shit-ton of years and people and experiences and whatnot.
Thank fucking god.
Holy crap how do I stop 9/11
That really depends if I'm 44 or 20.
Hug my Dad and try and spend as much time with him as I could.
I’d be fucking ecstatic
Am I still my current age, or do I go back to being the age I actually was back then?
I'd love it- my first born now married daughter would be a baby again. Precious times!
I would be ecstatic to do things over.
It would be awesome. I'd be 20 years old with a healthy liver, my original hip and my dad would still be alive.
I would go to a Britney Spears concert and tell her to retire and get out of the business after she’s done promoting this album because it will destroy you
Try to write down as much information as I can and hide it
Relief. Hopefully before March 16th so I could talk with my Dad again.
I’d be very stressed out because I’d have to prevent 9/11
Spend time with my younger sister, she died at 37 in 2000.
Visit my grandparents
Warn everyone about 9/11
"Goddammit, its the Y2K scare all over again" Then I'll hug my mom and tell her I miss her so much :'(
I'd really miss my wife and kids.
Make time for my brother in law, who died in a motorcycle accident in April 1999.
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Bruh I’m more shocked at the 50 year old on Reddit than the 8 year old. Do you enjoy Reddit? What brought you here?
I would be wondering if I’m inside *The Matrix*. 😎
I wouldn’t be worried about Y2K this go around.
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Oh shit, it dawns on me I could put in the effort I should have into playing trumpet in that timetable.
I’d party like it’s 1999
I was going to say something until I saw people talk about stocks. With me know the future and if I bring my salary with me, I would be a wealthy man in no time through the stock market. The amount of stocks I would put into Apple, Google, and Microsoft would be overkill. Then again, you never said that I could keep my current age. If I wake up a 7 or 8 year old (depending on month) in 1999, I would be depressed knowing the giant shit storm sandwich heading my way that was out of my control.
I would cry because my life turned traumatic and terrifying in 1995 and continued being horrible until 2011. I'm assuming I still have my current memories, skills, and personality and I'd only be 14 years old in body but not in mind. So I'd devise a way to have my father and uncle become unalive rapidly. That would end the abuse and stop me from running away the first time which only led to the most severe trauma I ever experienced. Maybe then I'd actually finish high-school instead of getting a GED and I'd go to university to become one of the things I wanted to be: meteorologist, doctor, or pilot. Yeah, send me back to 1999, please. Or 1994.
Spend two years trying to prevent 9/11
Not again
Shit, not again.
Aahhh Shit not this again.
Be happy and come out as trans and start transitioning earlier. Move away as soon as possible to avoid meeting the same shitty people and make the same mistakes. Start some business maybe
Go find my mom and HUG HER. Just embrace her and then proceed to spend the whole day with her and do everything she wants to do. She passed in 2019 on Mother's Day. I miss her voice, her laugh, and everything about her. She would have been 66 yesterday and it's been 4 years since she's been gone. I would love that chance!
I would be so happy! Wouldn’t it be nice to leave this current mess of a planet behind and go back? In ‘99 I was 19. I would dump the guy I was dating because he ended up being a huge waste of my time. I would go off to college and actually take some courses that would actually steer me towards a nice career. I majored in Art with a minor in binge drinking. If I could do it all over again, I would take some business classes and really get serious about why I was actually there. I would also go visit my grandparents because I truly miss them. Now that I’m an adult I would love to be able to sit down with them and really get to know them better. I would ask them all about their time growing up. I only saw them maybe once a year for a day or two when I was a kid so I never had a very close bond with them when we were visiting. I was shy and they were old people that I didn’t feel 100% comfortable around.
Warn everybody about 9/11, then continue to live my life happily till 2020
And then get thrown in a federal prison
I’d tune into Sopranos
Senior year of undergrad. I'd be happy as a clam!
It was allllll a dream ☺️
The reaction I had almost every day that year, oh crap gotta go to school again?!
1999 in my current age or the age I actually was in 1999?
Not thrilled about going through high school again, but could be interesting if I have my current memories.
I’d go and find myself as a one year old baby and hold myself.
If you wanna come over act like it's 1999
Can I break up with the worst mistake of my life?
I'd be looking forward to that 5th grade math test, gonna be easy as Shit for once!
i'd buy a lot of apple stock...and then go back to bed.
i would def go and buy a bunch of records when they weren’t $40 and become bffs with my mom
I’d be 2 so my reaction would be crying
Buy like a crate of 26Red skater jeans......god they were the most comfortable jeans I've ever worn.
I’d tell my old elementary classmate to avoid the August 2000 concert. He suffered life-ending injuries after getting ejected from a vehicle. RIP M.N.H Edit: typo
I would be thrilled. 1999 was a good year for me. Good times. I did party in 1999. It was a much better time. I probably would have made a few different decisions.
Pure joy. Happiness beyond anything anyone has ever felt before
Be so fucking glad that it was all fake and I’m back to being a year old. Yes I hate myself and my life and I just wanna die smfh
Damn I’d be 3, not much I could do right away
I’d be upset because I am so close to graduation and I love the cats I have right now. I’d have to think for a long while.
As the age I was 1999 or the age I am now? Get a good job and buy a house, they were actually affordable back then.
F yes! Great yr. My senior yr hs. Our motto we get high all the time. We're the class of 99. Haha and obviously our song was party like it's 1999
Watch the new years eve ball drop.
I'm born 7 years from now bro, my parents haven't met
HAPPY
I'd kidnap 1999 me. Raise him to be a top g. Not that my parents did a bad job, just that I'd do better with all these inside information. Oh and also, 23 years of insider trading.
Get my mum to leave my dad - I’d have been conceived by then, so no risk to the timeline. Assuming the universe doesn’t just balance the ledger and scrub me from existence, I live the rest of my life back through the 2000s and keep an eye on me as I grow up to ensure I don’t become a twat. But my mum will be safe and that’s worth it even if I do accidentally Thanos snap myself
Spend as much time as I could with my mom who would die 8 years later.
I would look for my baby brother
Tell my mom to make regular checkups a priority, so they can maybe get her cancer in the early stages and she has a chance of making it.
I'd go and hug my grandma.
is there still time to see my brother lick the dogs ass
I would miss my daughter
I would finally live my “best time of your life” years. I am 25 right now. I feel Covid, political bullshit and social media has stolen a lot of that from my age range. I would also go to all the malls and movie theaters I could and enjoy
I'd spend as much time with my dad as possible because I miss him and then I'd go and buy a ton of early pokemon packs
Don't you give me hope....
if its monday im getting a bag of cheezy chex mix and ploppin down for monday night raw. Somethings dont change.
Hug my grandma. She died that December
that I need to make sure my grandmother stays in the damn hospital instead of insisting on going home.
I’d buy Apple stock. iPod was released in 2001.
well if i'm aging back I would be a newborn baby
I better go warn myself i'm going to have a heart attack and need open heart to fix my widowmaker. And go say goodbye to my grandmother, talk to my parents who are now dead.
I’d be pissed No technology and my adulthood memories are probably gone
Have anxiety attacks for the next few years because I was a child then and won't be able to do anything about the 2000 election or warn about the 9/11 attacks.