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25 People Share The Dumbest Possible Way They'd Use Time Travel.

With great power comes great responsibility... right? Well sometimes when you've been bestowed with incredible powers, you don't always want to do incredible things. These people share the dumbest way they'd use the valuable tool of time travel.



1/25. Going back in time to be the one to tell the punchline of a joke all your friends laughed at when someone else told it.

Pellantana

2/25. Traveling back in time to avoid the incident in which you accidentally answered your phone before looking at the caller ID, only to discover an extremely charismatic telemarketer who kept you on the phone for over an hour and eventually talked you into purchasing subscriptions to 6 different magazines you had absolutely no real interest in reading.

Nevadadrifter

3/25. Get in time machine and travel back a minute to stop yourself getting in time machine.

Shade0o

4/25. Visiting famous sculptors as soon as they completed their masterwork, and breaking its arms off.

captainmagictrousers


5/25. Wanting to watch every "Friends" episode taped from the live studio-audience. Forever.

Thatsmahdood

6/25. Walking home from school you get kidnapped by evil-doers, they confiscate your cellphone and throw you in a cage to starve but little do they know you have the power to travel through time. So you go back in time and store some food in your underwear so you won't be hungry.

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7/25. Poop in your hand so you can travel back in time to put it together with your last poop and flush them both at the same time to save water.

Probably the sh*ttiest way to use the time travel ability.

kwebbelkop

8/25. Going back in time to spoil big movie and T.V. secrets. Yelling "Darth Vader is Luke's father!" outside of theaters the day Empire was released. Yelling "Bruce Willis is a ghost!" during the Sixth Sense premier... etc.

Zanos-Ixshlae

9/25. Go back in time and steal usernames on websites like reddit.

chasev8

10/25. Starting a business where we find your lost items, but really we just go back in time, steal it and sell it back to you.

venom1320

11/25. Just had an argument with my husband and he swears he didn't say something that I swear he did. Using time travel to settle that dispute would probably me the sh*ttiest use, totally pointless in the grand scheme of things.

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12/25. Going back in time so that I made it to the bathroom on time and didn't sh*t myself last week.

hotchnuts

13/25. I would buy delicious cake and eat it, then go back in time and eat it again. I would probably do that about 15 times in a row.

Fan_of_the_butt

14/25. Traveling to the future... at the rate of 1 second per second.

PainMatrix

15/25. Skipping the commercials. I'd imagine it would be a lot like when you recorded something off cable. "Little more, little more... whoops, too far. Just rewind a tiny bit, and... f*ck, now we're at the beginning again. Okay, slower this time... what the hell, it just went all the way to the end! Gah!" *dies*

essidus

16/25. "Oh man, my grilled cheese is cold..."

Trezzie

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17/25. Going back in time to check whether I really turned off the stove.

brobeusswagrid

18/25. Ordering a pizza and then using it to jump to a half hour from the prior present point so it just seemingly arrives at your door in an instant.

OnlyMySofaPullsOut

19/25. Time travel to the beginning of earth only to die from lack of oxygen.

TheMantisStrike

20/25. To make sure that Tom Cruise did get the starring role in The Shawshank Redemption.

riidiii

21/25. Go back in time and stop the discovery of time machines.

1amathrowaway

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22/25. I would go back in time to drop a key from my second story home into my hands to let myself in because I locked myself out.

masticatetherapist

23/25. Going back to September 10th, 2001 to get the last case of Pepsi Clear.

ChampChirey

24/25. Sending robots who are supposed to look like everyday humans but instead look like German body builders back in time to kill a single human female.

goatman2112

25/25. "Hi, eighteen-year-old Max! Wait. What is this?"

"Ha ha! I was expecting you this time, you bastard!"

"So, you set up a net to trap your future self? After all that I've done for you?"

"You haven't done anything for me! You've been actively trying to ruin my life since I was a kid!"

"How is it 'ruining your life' if I warn you about oncoming calamities? Also, a net? Really?"

"That's the whole problem! You're not letting me find out for myself! How do I know I would have broken up with my girlfriend if you hadn't pointed it out?!"

"Try thinking with your brain for a change."

"Oh, yeah, that's really mature."

"Ha! Talk about irony."

"That was sarcasm."

"Right, I know. Hence the irony."

"... What?"

"No, no, I wouldn't want to 'ruin your life' by revealing anything."

"Stop it! I know what you're doing!"

"No doubt... just like I know what you're going to do."

"Ugh. Fine. Tell me, then leave."

"Nope, sorry. You blew it this time."

"What?"

"I'm keeping my mouth shut for another two years. Have fun 'making your own mistakes!'"

"Stop! What did I... what will I... argh!"

"See you at age twenty!"

RamsesThePigeon

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