If I Had a Time Machine
Forget killing Hitler. That seems rather ambitious, and there are all those paradoxes to work out. No, if I had a time machine, I think I’d do something a bit smaller. Simpler.
I was reading through old blog posts yesterday as I was writing up my article on using lists to deal with stress (checking to see if I’d blogged about it before). And what did I find? This post about how great it was to let professionals handle home renovation. I wrote about how wonderful it was to listen to them work away up there, doing a job far better than I could do it.
The same “professionals” who put in the insulation I was cursing as I tore it out last night with the fam, in preparation for spray foam to be put in on Saturday morning at 7am. (Because sleeping in is for the weak, I guess.)
If I had a time machine, friends, I’d head back and fire that louse before I gave him another penny. As I read that blog post, I just wanted to reach through the screen and slap myself in the face. Tell myself to go boot them out of the house and save myself a whole ton of money and headache.
But I don’t have a time machine, so I didn’t do that.
Not that I don’t still believe in letting professionals do their job, but I certainly have learned the lesson of not believing a professional is what he says he is. Trust, but verify.
What small but large mistake would you fix in your past? Nothing that would shatter the space-time continuum. Just a simple tweak that would save you a bunch of trouble?
Please share, and have a wonderful Thursday.
By Karla Burkhart, September 8, 2016 @ 3:37 pm
I wish I had watched better when the lighting was put in our family room. I said what I wanted and trusted. Wrong! They installed what they thought would be better. Now we have lights that reflect off the wall mount tv making viewing hard.
By Bryce Moore, September 8, 2016 @ 3:39 pm
See? A time machine could *totally* fix that and not cause a single paradox. Sigh.