One Call To Yourself When You Were Twenty. What do you say?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

“Alan knows where you hid your stash!”

[virtualobserver]

1. "Buy Microsoft in 1986, Buy APPLE in 1997"

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Good stuff! 👍🏻

[spooky3]

2. Do not do high impact aerobics for 20 years!

Good for your heart; good for your knee surgeon; bad for your older self.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. You aint wrong! 👍🏻

[Corvo Bianco]

5. Basically just a list of dangerous people I'm about to encounter.

I just turned 30 so my twenties are still raw

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Youngster!

[Glamrock]

6. Music is a dead end man!

Not that twenty year old Glamrock would listen. He knows everything, you see.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Didnt we all! 😏

[Skittles]

49. WOOT!

[First Speaker]

7. For Chrissakes, move to Oklahoma to be with Margaret...

...your presence in CT won't help your Dad one bit. There's nothing you can do for him. Live your own life.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Last part is as important as it gets! 👍🏻

[NightWatcher]

8. Just keep on doing your thing. You'll love where you end up.

Oh, and don't forget your cowboy boot when you move.


I lost one ten years ago and I only have the left one now

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Excellent! 👍🏻

Oh!: https://www.aqha.com/daily/lifestyle/2017/august/creative-uses-for-old-cowboy-boots/

[Jim Lane]

61. Interesting. My call would elaborate on "Do NOT keep on doing your thing."

Sometimes doing your thing means resisting irrelevant pressures and then you love where you end up.

Other times, doing your thing means stubbornly clinging to one way and not taking advantage of the wisdom of others.

How to tell the difference in advance? Damned if I know.

[Nictuku]

12. You are NOT fat! You are Beautiful

Start saving for your retirement NOW!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Good advice!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Don't marry that guy.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Many can relate! 👍🏻

[SCantiGOP]

73. Get castrated

If you can re-direct all that energy you are going to expend you will have millions of dollars and probably several PHDs by the time you retire.

(really, really just kidding. My advice would be Don't marry X and don't even date Y and Z)

[Shrike47]

16. Go to law school now. You will love being a lawyer.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. Cool! 👍🏻

[nocoincidences]

17. Birth control pills can't be trusted....

especially in 1970.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Especially if its the guy taking them! 😏

[AJT]

21. Move to a Scandinavian country now, while you're still young.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. And before the arthritis sets in! 😏

[lastlib]

62. "Flee to Paraguay. Fight extradition."

[mercuryblues]

22. Dayum you had fun

Here are some lottery numbers.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. Very good!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. Don't smoke. And at least minor in something that's a marketable skill. (This was late 70s)

Everything worked out in the long run but these two things could have given made things easier.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

26. Very good! 👍🏻

[Doreen]

27. Don't ride that moped with or without that helmet!!!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

28. Tell me about it! 👍🏻

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

29. Don't take the job

Where you'll meet the woman who will be your second wife, in 8 years. And if you meet her somehow, somewhere else anyway, RUN AWAY FAST and don't look back. She'll give you 13 years of happiness followed by 5 years of mediocrity followed by 5 years of ever worsening misery, ending in a blindside divorce at the absolute worst time. She'll come through menopause by toughing her way through with no professional aid beyond what the health food stores push, which, as far as I could ever tell were totally worthless and ineffective. She'll come through after 4-5 years a completely changed, for the worse MUCH WORSE, woman. She'll become a bitter shrew and a faint shadow of her former self. Totally altered personality and character, which she will refuse to acknowledge or consider while accusing literally everyone else of changing for the worse.

She will drive you crazy with her inability to participate in any adult level conversation,outside of number crunching or organization, and with her fixations and obsessions with small meaningless things and her inability to ever see the bigger picture. Her incapacity to think/plan more than 1 move ahead, disabling any ability to consider how her words and actions might affect others down the road, and will call you delusional when you attempt to explain it to her.

Another thing that will annoy you half to death is her propensity to interrupt in mid sentence and take issue with what she thinks that half sentence means, which will have no resemblance to what the completed sentence would have meant, and will escalate it to a shouting match when you try to finish the sentence and correct her.

You'll get to where you love her but have an intense dislike of her. You'll be glad to leave the house, or have her leave and dread eithers return. You'll lose so many things accumulated over many years, in the divorce, it'll make your head spin.

Here is her name, **** *******. You'll meet her at the 1st National bank on this date, **-**-****. Stay away from there.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Sorry!

[Lochloosa]

30. Listen to your parents.

They didn't listen to there's and look where they ended up.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. Hahahahaha!

[nocalflea]

31. Don't be so frickin' hard on yourself.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. Amen! 👍🏻

[Moostache]

32. Live fearlessly...the things you are afraid of at 20 are comically unimportant at 47!

Take that trip to Europe.
Go "broke" while living at mom and dad's.
By the way...the "5th year plan"? Yeah...that's a thing that David is going to get away with...USE IT!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. Good stuff! 👍🏻

[Aristus]

37. "When you get out of the Army at age 24, don't mess around. Go right into clinical medicine.

Use your GI Bill to put you through Medical Assisting School and then the PA program. Oh, and whatever you do, be in the conference room of the community center on Pearl St in Tacoma for the Richard III read-through, Summer, 1994. Sit across the table from the woman who looks like Mimi Rogers. Trust me."

[tymorial]

38. Nothing

I could save myself a lot of pain and suffering by telling myself not to do something in 5 years. I don't know if anyone else has an incident like this but there is a single moment in my life where I made a decision that led to a sequence of events which changed my life and caused a lot of difficult times.

I could say dont go rock climbing on a certain day or approach the descent differently. Perhaps my life would have been different. I may not be the same person today with the same life. If that were the case then my daughter would not be here and that is a risk I could never take. She is everything to me and I would suffer all of those times again to make sure she is here.

I simply couldn't take the risk.. though I might tell myself not to drink as much the night before finals. I really did a number on myself that night and the hangover lasted days

[Va Lefty]

39. Lay off the weed and hit the books!

[The Blue Flower]

40. Don't get married

for awhile, anyway

[greymattermom]

41. You don't really have to work that hard

failures are ok, they will happen anyway.

[CanonRay]

42. Don't marry her!

[GentryDixon]

43. Rather to myself, my son when he was young.

https://g.co/kgs/cBZbCC

Brad Paisley "Letter to Me"

Brad is a very strong progressive.

This song is my son's ring tone. 😍

[Upthevibe]

50. Well, now I'm in tears....that was an awesome

song and video. Thanks for posting!

[fierywoman]

44. Find your shrink this year and start working through stuff

instead of waiting until you're 33.

[shenmue]

45. "Go back to New York"

[femmedem]

46. Thinking about this has made me so grateful for my life.

I had some horrible years--a divorce, a fiancée who committed suicide, and years (after being raped) when I couldn't imagine anything better for myself than being an exotic dancer--but I wouldn't trade any of it away.

I'm dumbfounded when I look back on it and see that I've landed in this safe place, with this good man, with a job that satisfies and has an impact on my community.

I guess I'd tell myself to be nicer to my ex-husband. Yeah. And of course, I'd tell myself to drive out to a certain bar on a certain night fifteen years in the future and save my fiancée's life. Other than that, it's been a wild, full, wonderful ride.

[left-of-center2012]

47. Move to Canada

It was 1966

[GeorgeGist]

48. Move to New Zealand.

[Upthevibe]

51. Go to college now and don't wait until you're in your 30's....AND

get your degree in something that makes sense!

[Sancho]

52. "Sail around the world. Forget work."

[stonecutter357]

53. DON"T go back for seconds, food are LOVE

[anneboleyn]

54. When you are at Stanford, talk to a couple of guys about a thing called "google"

[Doodley]

55. Have a lot more sex while you still can!

[pbmus]

56. ....cant get no...

[klook]

57. "It's going to be okay."

And it was, mostly. Way better than okay, for the most part.

Also -- "Man, do not give so much of a shit about what other people think of you! Most of them have absolutely no idea who you are or what you're capable of."

Still need to get those calls at this advanced age as well.

[Iris]

58. Leave the South

[hunter]

59. Doesn't matter. I never listen.

[benld74]

60. DUMP HER NOW!!! Not when youre 25

You’ll save yourself years and $$$$ doing it now

[Iggo]

70. This.

[Laffy Kat]

63. Finish your degree, idiot. nt

[Ysabel]

64. remember when you were born and you thought it all seemed so familiar...

and then when you were seven and you had that conversation with (blank) and she said oh yeah we talked about this the last time around didn't we and then when you were 13 i sent you that note dated 1627 (current calendar) remember that well you get my drift right anyway go read that note again and reply i'll check the post in 3024...

[MrScorpio]

65. Zig.

Don’t zag.

[geardaddy]

66. Be yourself. Don't worry about what others think.

[FSogol]

68. Some of us should have worried more what others thought.

[FSogol]

67. Forget getting your degree and open that Microbrewery. n/t

[geardaddy]

69. Good one!

[BarbaRosa]

71. R.C.A.F.

yes, sign up.

[DFW]

72. The first thing I'd say is

DON'T HANG UP, IT'S REALLY ME! I MEAN YOU!

[Flaleftist]

74. Buy as many bitcoins as you can

and use cold storage.

[Kaleva]

75. "You are going to have an interesting life! Enjoy it!"

[blur256]

76. Do not get a master's degree

You got undergrad on a scholarship at a great school. Don't take out loans for a degree you will not use. Damnit. 50 gs later

[kwassa]

77. Drop out of art school.

Get a real education.

[moriah]

78. Don't do it! Just don't.... he's not worth it. Nt

[sakabatou]

79. If I were 19: Go to the community college