Ok, I need help. Please, someone tell me that there is a way to take an email back. Possibly a way to delete it or edit it from my mailbox. Surely there is a way to stop the email from existing. Please, please tell me what that way is? Please?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Ok, I need some more help. Please, someone tell me that there is a way to go back in time. Possibly a way to delete the past or edit it from memory? Surely there is a way to stop that moment from existing. Please, please tell me what that way is? Please?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
First, you're going to need a temporal inverter.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
If you find a way to make this work I have about 30 years I'd like a do over on...
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Well, there is a theoretical psychic discipline known only to soulknives and curanderas as a peripheral temporal geas. It's said that it could possibly 'splinter' elements of targeted quasi-dimensional realities in overlay with our own timeline. They steadfastly refuse to abuse this power in any way, but I heard that there was an outcast of the Ojinaga living in Truth and Consequences, New Mexico, who may be persuaded to selfishly change the timeline in exchange for a sack of bezoars (no trichobezoars, please).
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
You could always send an email saying "DON'T OPEN PREVIOUS EMAIL!"
Of course, it's likely that would make the person curious, but if you trust them (and since you obviously care a great deal, I hope you trust them), maybe they'll be nice and actually not open it. Or at the very least they'll know you regretted sending it.
And there's also the option of cracking into their account. Sounds like you're on a bit of a short time frame though, so good luck with that.
If it makes you feel any better, I once forwarded a very personal email along with my personal thoughts about the person who wrote it (not flattering), not to the person I intended on forwarding to, but instead back to the person who wrote it. Erm.... that was confusing. Basically I hit reply instead of forward and it was bad. BUT, it turned out alright. I apologized, they understood, and we moved on. It was all good. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
I'd work on damage control rather then prevention. But thats just me, sounds like the milk has already been spilled.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Ok, so a temporal inverter, huh? Ok, let's see...
Yeah, damage control is the probably the best thing. Brief explanation: Lots of drama has been going on and I have promised someone that I wouldn't talk about it but it won't go away if I don't talk about it, and it's been three months and I broke and talked about it and now there will be the Unholy Drama of Doom, the likes of which mere men haven't the imaginations to grasp.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jim-Me: If you find a way to make this work I have about 30 years I'd like a do over on...
Interesting. Don't you have five really good reasons to stick with the current timeline?
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
On AOL, you can take back your emails to other AOL members, so long as they hadn't opened it yet.
At least that was the case about 10 years ago, when I had it last.
I'd written quite a few emo emails in the middle of the night, only to recall them at the crack of dawn. Of course, there was one which slipped through.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
quote:Originally posted by Jim-Me: If you find a way to make this work I have about 30 years I'd like a do over on...
Interesting. Don't you have five really good reasons to stick with the current timeline?
I'm not certain that re-doing the last 30 years would eliminate them... I would have done a lot better job fathering them from the beginning had I done a few things differently back early on.
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
Yeah, now that I have a kid, I can't contemplate time travel or reliving my life without thinking, "How would my child be different if I applied the butterfly effect to her conception, and how terribly would I miss the child I lost and resent the new version that replaced her?" Ruins all the fun.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I had one of those email moments this week. I feel for you, vonk. Hang in there.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
All I want is to go back in time and give my father some investment advice in the early 80s. Is that so much to ask?
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Sounds like you could use a flux capacitor.
Professional faux pas of my life: I once forwarded an inquiry from a reader of the publication I worked for to a researcher with the note, "This woman really needs to get a life." Then I realized I'd hit reply instead of forward.
Gulp. I immediately sent an abject grovelling apology and confessed to my boss, assuming that said reader would clamor for my head on a platter. Nothing horrible ensued, but I certainly was more careful after that.
Posted by Avatar300 (Member # 5108) on :
Nighthawk, let me know when you go back. We can timepod-pool and save money on chronotons.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
If anyone sent me an email and followed that with "DON'T READ THE PREVIOUS EMAIL," that's pretty much the only way to ensure that I will in fact read the previous email at my earliest possible convenience. Best bet is to send a second email explaining the first one, and if it's bad, apologize like crazy and pray for a good result.
Take-Backs in this sense are a lot like euchre: a card laid is a card played. Better hope you have a better hand in the end.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
i shall never send an emotional or snarky email so long as i live.
these "replied by accident" stories more or less make me want to vomit. that is one of my worst nightmares.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jim-Me:
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
quote:Originally posted by Jim-Me: If you find a way to make this work I have about 30 years I'd like a do over on...
Interesting. Don't you have five really good reasons to stick with the current timeline?
I'm not certain that re-doing the last 30 years would eliminate them... I would have done a lot better job fathering them from the beginning had I done a few things differently back early on.
Fair enough. In my case, I know that undoing my big mistake would undo my kids. No deal.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
My big mistake was not who I married, but who I was (or more correctly, "wasn't") when I got married.
Of course, it may be that who I married *was* a consequence of that... but I was married to her for a pretty formative 40% of her life so it's hard to say how much my issues affected hers. All that to say: "your point is not invalid, just not one I was considering ."
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jim-Me: My big mistake was not who I married, but who I was (or more correctly, "wasn't") when I got married.
True in my case as well. However, I can say with a great deal of certainty that being older and wiser almost certainly would have affected who I married (as well as completely nixing the possibility of the child who was born before I was 20).
Regardless, with no time machine available this side of SF, it's not a question I expect to have to actually worry much about. Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
The people in this thread are all morons and I hate them. Let's laugh at them behind their backs.
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