Image you are transported back to the concluding days of the year 1999.  You blend in well enough, but are trying to convince someone in, say, a Starbucks that you are from the future.

“Oh yeah.  Who’s president in 2009?”
You nearly spit out “Barack Obama”, before stuffing it back in.  “Um.  Someone you never heard of.  If you went back to 1989 and spoke the name Bill Clinton… well, our president is more obscure and a bit unbelievable to you than the name Clinton was to 89…”

“How about this next election, 2000?  How does it end up?”
“Er.  Never mind that one.”

He fades away from you, and you desperately try to get him back by reaching to the only thing you’ve travelled with that marks the year 2009.  “Look!  I have this Time Magazine from 2009!”

 

“Hm.  Should I just pop myself full of prozac now, or…?”

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