Time Machine, Anywhere Door or Invisibility Helmet?
Anywhere door hands down.
In the prompt it is written that they’re selling these things at an electrical store, so I’ve decided to give each item a brand name and slogan: the PastMaster 3000 – ‘Time is on your side!’; the Teleportal – ‘Anywhere in an instant’; and the Evanesce Headdress – ‘Hide and go sneak’.
Sure, the PastMaster 3000 would be cool. I’ve seen a few bloggers saying they’d use it to conduct research which is a great idea, and tempting. But time machines are far too dangerous. The past is pretty darn gnarly: Wars. Brigands. Dinosaurs. Not to mention that you’d be messing with the fabric of spacetime, man – the butterfly effect and all that jazz. Time travel is fraught with peril, paradoxes and Proceratosauri. I ain’t going anywhen. No way José. No thanks Tom Hanks. I’ll stick to now.
Unlike the PastMaster, the Evanesce Headdress doesn’t have any deadly downfalls. But it pails in comparison to the Teleportal.
Boy oh boy, the possibilities! I can go ‘anywhere in an instant’, as the slogan says. How practical. No more travel times or costs: just open the door and viola! I’m at my seminar on campus (that extra twenty minutes was just enough time to do the reading). Skip the seven hour, sixty-squid train journey back to Brighton, just one step and one second and I’m back home for Xmas. I don’t need to pack, I simply go back through the door to grab clean clothes. Holidays? Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I don’t even need to book accommodation. I can travel the whole wide world for free. I can take my ninety-year old nan to Penzance to see St. Michael’s Mount one more time without worrying about the long, long journey down here.
Anyone can see the appeal of this, but as a writer it is even more exciting. I mentioned early the great idea some fellow bloggers had of time travel research. Well, if I want to write about any place anywhere on earth I can experience it firsthand. I want to write a scene set in a diner on Route 66, a Bavarian castle nestled in a mountain forest, the crumbling ruins of a lost civilisation in the Libyan sahara? I can just go there ‘… in an instant’.
‘Hello, I’d like to purchase one Teleportal, please.’
Man I want an Anywhere Door.
Samuel Birnie 
You might still have to contend with thieves waiting on the other side of your portal door. They seem to be pretty good in airports now. 🙂
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That is true… could prove troublesome. I’ll have to get a guard frog.
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just so too many other people don’t make the same choice and start popping into my life whenever they wish!!!!
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Haha! You have a very amusing writing voice. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your response. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 and thanks for the follow too!
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Love your reasoning… But the archaeologist inside of me said that the time machine was ll that and more? I am not into changing history… it’s already history. I just want to view it!
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Yeah I know what you mean. As an observer, the time machine would be awesome, there’s just the possibility of cataclysmically fluffing up the future. I think if you can keep yourself to yourself it would be alright. I just know I’d eventually do something silly or clumsy and irrevocably alter the world. Also, I wonder whether the time machine can travel through space as well as time? Most time machines seem to be able to travel to a specific place and point in history, in which case it’s just like the anywhere door but with an added dimension.
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Ooops, just went to reply to your comment on my other post after viewing your page and I pressed ‘Command + t’ to type a capital ‘T’ for ‘Thank you’ and it trashed the comment!
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The computer often does things that I don’t intend as well!
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See what I mean? I can barely manage a computer keyboard – I wouldn’t trust myself with a time machine!
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HahAhHA!
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