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Think I can convince my wife to go 20 years back in my Time Machine so I can swap her 4 her 21-year-old self?

  • I've developed a Time Machine that can go backward or forward about 20 years. It has some quirks, and is dangerous to travel in, but for the most part works. Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the day I met my wife and now, at 41, she's been around the block a few too many times. She's also not all that happy. While my Time Machine isn't bigger than a phone booth, and my wife has grown quite large, I do think I can cram her in and go back 20 years to this important date in our history. But I'm trying to think of a way where I can leave her with the 19-year-old me. I was a college student on my own and needed a mom if anything back then. My wife back then, from a broken home, needed a daddy. Then I'd take back the 21-year-old version of her to the present so I'd get a few more miles out of her. Also, the kid would like to have a mom with more energy, and this, in essence, would be the same mom genetically. No sense of loss for her. The major roadblocks I see, aside from fitting my wife into the Machine: 1. Will the 19-year-old version of me believe me that he needs a 41-year-old "mom" as lover? 2. Will my 41-year-old wife refuse to go because she will miss the kid? I think the younger version of my wife will come with me as she would like the financial security of the present and I look about the same as I did back then. I need some solutions in the next 24 hours to this conundrum.

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    Geez, you really do want to keep your wife, in a way, to go to all this trouble. You just don't like some of the changes in her personality and looks. What I don't understand is, if you take the 21 year-old version of your wife back to the present and leave the 41 year-old version in the past, and your kid wasn't conceived yet, would she still exist in the present? I'm not sure how this time travel stuff works. Do you think the 19 year-old you would even be attracted to the 41 year-old version of your wife, sexually? What kind of effects would that have on the present you? How many parallel universes are we talking here? lol! If it was as simple as swapping, I think that might be a nice solution. Then, you would be more aware of the t hings to watch out for, and could help keep your wife from becoming the miserably unhappy, obese person she is today. edit - the only problem with Snarky's idea is that your wife and kid would be missing each other. Otherwise, that's a good idea! ; )

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You said: I need some solutions in the next 24 hours to this conundrum. WHY in 24 hours? You have a freakin' time machine...

Self Love Hammer

It is way to complicated Eddie. Just put the time machine on auto pilot and drug you wife and stick her inside. Send her to the future. That will allow you the time to have fun with your EF's, old and new, then in twenty years, when you hook up with your current wife, she will look refreshing and new again. Man! I think I have given myself a headache.

Snarky

You must be REALLY bored.

You dont need a time machine, you need a shrink.

Mrs. M

You'll have to "squeeze" into it, but you'll have room to spare when you walk out of it. You can have the same kid as you get older. Just do things differently this time around, because look at all you've learned over the yrs., use them all to your advantage the second time around. You just could end up w/a perfect life. That in itself would make it all worth it. Let us all know when you're going..:)

Sue C

Yep ! Sounds like mid-life crisis to me ! I understand what your going through too. My husband gained a bunch of darn weight and is lazy as hell ! Im the one running around doing everything. So , Im not perfect either, but Im just fine with how I look, but Im surely not 350 lbs !!! I have tried everything to get him to loose the weight. EVERYTHING ! I think hes waking up ! gatto go :)

sea shell

Lol i'm sorry thats funny. If your wife isn't excited make her more bring life back to her don't swap her out. Lol Good Luck God Bless If you really have a time machine would you let me borrow it?

Married Soldier

Hmm, you're not considering the outcomes of your mission. by taking your wife back 20 years and leaving her with the 19 year old version of you, if your younger version ended up with the older version by the time you've taken your younger version back to the future she'll be 20 years older than when you started. That's assuming of course that your younger version decides to commit the rest of his life to this 41 yr old woman. i suggest watching the butterfly effect, small changes have massive consequences when dealing with time.

Ben H

You are really jobless ... btw how long did it take for you to come up with this question and typing the entire stuff ?

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