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Thank the Lord that the last 44 years was just a bad dream! Go hug my mom and dad. Ask them when we get to see my grandparents again, then get on my bike and ride over to a friend’s house to tell him about my odd dream.

Buy Microsoft and Apple stock

Hop on my bike and stay gone 'til the street lights come on!

Go outside, take a deep breath and enjoy the sound of a culture where people generally respected each other regardless of creed, gender, age or culture.

Record my favorite songs on the radio via cassette recorder and hand held mic, cursing the DJ that spoke over the intro/ending.

make coffee, go get the paper, check my answering machine

Place a futures bet on the Oakland A’s sweeping the SF Giants in the 1989 World Series.

Look for all quarters i can find, check the air in my bike tires then head to the arcade, assuming school is out of course (wink-wink)

Go to Smash Records in Georgetown, find out where the fuck Minor Threat is playing next, and go to that show.

Grab a BMX and ride around the neighborhood with friends. Watch original Star Trek until I had to go to bed under a denim blanket my grandmother made from harvested worn jeans.

Pop one of these in the tape deck.

Go hug my parents and tell them I love them

Turn on the radio and soak in Casey Kasem’s American Top 40… 🎶🥹

Try my best to not disrupt the past and stop myself from being born.

Guess I'm doing high school all over again..

Either turned up or turned down the radio so that I can plan my day. The radio was never off, only the volume and/or station changed.

Go buy a shit ton of apple ,GM,and Ford stock and have it held in trust till when I turn 21 in the future. Then make a few dozen sports bets,go to Hawaii a place no one in My family has ever been and party like crazy since HIV didn't hit till June of that year.

Buy every carded Star Wars figure I can find. Assuming I cannot buy sticks that don’t exist yet.

These questions need to be more specific. Am I me as I am right now, or am I the age I was in 1981? Do I have all the knowledge I have now or am I unaware I just came back from 2025? These are the details that I need to know before I answer.

Ride my BMX bike to the Pizza Hut in town, play Hall & Oates on the jukebox, order Pepsi, a pepperoni pizza and breadsticks, then play PAC-Man at the sit-down video game until it arrived.

Put on Back In Black

I’d be 10 years old and would be thrilled to do it all over again

What is the date? I’d like to try to prevent the attempted assassination of President Reagan. His wound affected him deeply, and had horrible effects on him for the rest of his life.

Write down all the major things I can remember from back then that haven't happened yet, then show my granddad & mom the list just before the first things happen. Then once they are convinced I know what I'm talking about tell them to put a bunch of money into Microsoft & Apple.

The same thing I do EVERY morning…

Get a bunch of film and photograph EVERYTHING around me…home, school (assuming I am my ‘81 self), favorite stores/malls and friends.

I don't recall life being quiet in 1981. I remember putting speakers on the windows seal so that we could hear music at the playground 🎶 🤣😁

Invent the cell phone and become fabulously wealthy.

Go back to bed.

Hug my Mum tightly. She died in 1986 and I miss her every day

Pop my Back in Black tape into my tape deck and listen for hours.

Id turn on the tv and watch cartoons.

Buy gold

I say Oh Jesus, not this shit again

Load up the ZX Spectrum. Grab my fake BMX and head out to play football, throw stones or set fire to things, while the game loads in. Come back in for tea and hope the game hasn’t crashed. If it has repeat steps a and b.