The day restarts a la Groundhog Day. What would you do differently?

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As the title says, what if you went back to when you woke this morning like in Groundhog Day? (except it only happens once) What would you do differently or go back and change?

For example, I was invited to a party tonight and I didn't go since I felt like shit, but now I feel better and I should've gone. I would've taken medicine all day and gone to the party instead.
 

Maxtro

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I've thought about this many times.

There is no point in repeating today over and over, but if I could, I'd redo a day in November when things between a girl and I went very bad.
 

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Well maybe I might not have told a bunch of people on the Rage PC support forums to kill themselves. Yeah I'm not the most stable person and I tend to use extremes to get my point across. Though honestly I don't regret it one bit now. They have been acting like dickheads for the longest time. Today I got called a hater because I had the AUDACITY to have Rage not work for me an Nvidia user and say maybe its id's fault. Truly a crime against humanity to accuse a developer of being responsible of problems when they haven't said ANYTHING about it aside from throwing the blame immediately on AMD. So is AMD masterminding the whole market and my GTX 560 Ti cards are actually made by AMD and using AMD drivers? Well that's the only thing I would think about doing anything different since I really haven't done anything today that would matter to change.
 

JoesshittyOs

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Well, shit. I probably would have gotten up before 5 o'clock in the afternoon. I probably wouldn't have just cooked that (fucking delicious) breakfast burrito at 11 at night while waking my parents because I turned on the fan (Either that or let the smoke detectors go off).

I wouldn't have watched the VGA's and did my homework (I probably would have had a better time, to be honest). And that's about it. Honestly, today was pretty dull. I've recently been feeling the need to spice up my life.
Maxtro said:
I've thought about this many times.

There is no point in repeating today over and over, but if I could, I'd redo a day in November when things between a girl and I went very bad.
Yeah, about this guys post. Care if we add "could we do any random day differently as well as today?"

I'd go back to the day when me and my Kinda-sorta-ex-that-I-technically-didn't-date broke up.

The night when we broke off what we had (I was a rebound to her and she noticeably didn't care much for me) I asked her if she really wanted to have a relationship. She said no, and I said "alright then, I'll see you on Monday" and that was the end of the conversation. I had ben pining after her through two boyfriends, and I when I finally got her it wasn't in the way I wanted. So really, I had no problems with it ending.

What happened the next day however was she apparently took "Ok, I'll see you on Monday" for "DIE *****!", which really wasn't the way I wanted it to go. I had been through nasty break ups, and I was trying to avoid that the night before.

She made a big scene about sitting as far away from me as possible, so I decided it was justified to go up and tell her "You have no reason to be mad" and walk away. That initiated a rather big fight after class in which she started screaming at me for a bunch of things, and I yelled at her back in the middle of the school. She took some low blows (like calling me a pussy and a little ***** for not telling my friends about us, when I had technically been doing it for her sake). And I took the opportunity to express to her that I thought she liked another guy , which she denied by throwing her phone at me (but she technically did. They ended up getting together at a later date)

That was a good long fight and she ended up telling half the school that I was angry that she wouldn't date me. We ended up becoming friends again for a short while, until she started pulling schoolgirl bullshit and we had another falling out.

Anyways (got kinda carried away there), I would have much rather asked her what the problem was without raising my tone, and then respectfully told her that I had no problems with it ending. Would've saved me about a week of drama, and may have ostensibly not led to the end of our friendship.
 

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If today, I'd probably have read some more. I have to read a book for class by Thursday. I've been neglecting it all this week because I thought I was going to read it all on Friday night, but then somebody asked if I wanted to hang out on Friday and I thought, "Hey, I'll do it on Saturday." I had a sore throat Friday morning; by Friday night I had developed a full-blown cold and even had to duck out early. Now that's turned into "Okay, fuck it, if I read this many pages a day I'll get it done in time."
So, yeah. I'm still dedicated to reading a lot on Sunday (or, later today, now that I look at the time), but goddamn.

If, applying the "do any random day differently" rule that others have instituted, I don't know. It's not necessary to act differently, is it? Because there are a few days I'd like to relive simply to relive. For example, I went out with a few friends from my Catering class once, a month or two or three ago. One of them was a girl I'm crushing on a bit (and I suspect is crushing on me, too, but I attribute that to wishful thinking). If you're familiar with the quiet/ socially uncomfortable guy stereotype guy, you might understand why this was kind of a big deal to me. We went and saw "Dream House" because we thought it was a scary film. I didn't think it was, but I recall her leaping on two distinct instances, and I remember reading a Cracked article [http://www.cracked.com/article_19024_6-factors-that-secretly-influence-who-you-have-sex-with.html] that mentioned that, physiologically, fear and sexual arousal were identical. So the facts are: She was scared, and she was sitting right next to me. She was also sitting next to another, probably more suitable mate than me, but ah, what the hell. On the walk back from the theatre, I gave her my jacket because it was cold.
I also finished Thus Spoke Zarathustra Part I before we went to the movie.
It was a good day.
 

bulbasaur765

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I would check my e-mail at 5:15PM and answer yes to girl who asked about "Wrastling" or whatever.
 

Reaper195

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There are a few days I would like to repeat over and over again and not change anything just for nostalgia's sake....but that's it.

Any other day would be fine though, so I could learn as much as possible. And since it's like Groundhog Day and you can't die......the amount of things I would do that would get me ripped apart by an angry mob.
 

OniaPL

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Considering that I woke up an hour ago, there's not much I could change. Hmm... Actually, I think I would leave lettuce out from my sandwich.
 

SanguineScale

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I would wake up and slowly realize that, although I may not have been completely satisfied with how my day went prior, I would still be powerless to improve it.

My hometown is -that- fucking boring.
 

lRookiel

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Well since I woke up about 30 minutes ago... I'm going to use yesterday instead. I would wake up, and actually do some fucking work -.-
 

cannot_aim

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Today I wouldn't have really changed anything at all, if you had asked this yesterday or the day before I would have tried a lot of different things.
 

Yokai

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Hmm. Not a whole lot, actually. Today was a very good day, both productive and enjoyable.

Now if there was any day I could change, well, I can think of just the one, and yeah, it would've involved a girl.
 

Jedoro

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Since I've been at work these five hours, I'm gonna answer as if this thread meant the 10th: I'd invite a lovely lady over to my apartment to watch some more Firefly, cook her lunch, then ask if she'd like to go out.
 

sniddy_v1legacy

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If I'm allowed to re-do one day and leave some notes....then I'd basically go back to a day when I stopped myself hitting someone...

I regret NOT flooring him...which is odd for me, pretty much a pacifist. I'd send an email just a little bit differently, heck no a lot differently.

I'd like to leave myself some notes explaining why I'm probably bruised, will not be welcome in certain circles and basically may indeed have crossed far to many lines with far too many people...anything else would be gravy but that's maybe asking too much.

It would probably do me the world of good, maybe I wouldn't ride off into the sunset with the girl...maybe things would go from terrible to worse - maybe not...but I'd have tried, and either way I'd have broken a really destructive self cycle and done something which my younger self wouldn't have the balls or self belief to do and was far, far too afraid of the consequence - to take a frickin' stand pick a side and do what was right

Twould be glorious...

This morning....frickin' wasted day would just study, I guess I could spend all my money on an orgy of self gratification and do some crazy sh!t but you know what, I probably wouldn't bother
 

necromanzer52

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I woke up half an hour. I haven't done anything yet.

If I could choose any day, well there's only one time in my life I remember, where I wish I made a different decision, but that was quite a long time ago, and I don't really care anymore.
 

WolfThomas

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Wouldn't/couldn't change much, today has mainly been a reactive day to everything I did yesterday, got drunk, slept with person, etc.