If someone invented a time machine...

[LadyZod]

I've actually thought about this many many times. I keep coming back to one answer:

To go back to New Years Eve 1989, several hours before the stroke of midnight that brought with it 1990. I'd corner my younger self outside (which I remember going outside for air due to a house full of relatives) and talk to myself.

Later a few days later I would have turned 14 be have been photographed at my birthday with my grandmother who is sufferring from cirhosis. She gets on a plane in mid January to go to Uruguay and comes down with pneumonia. The doctors there take her off her medicine while admitted. She dies Jan 30th and is buried before my mother can get on the plane. That affects my mother greatly for the next 11 years before she dies at the age of 52.

I figure that particular New Years Eve I could break the news to my younger self, and it would allow enough time for young me to get over the shock, and start harassing my mother to prevent my grandmother from getting on that plane. If need be, my young self would tell my grandmother the truth and plead for her to stay.

Knowing the time and place of my mother's death would allow me to change my timeline enough to be close by and spend more time with her. Possibly even prevent it, as it was medical malpractice.

Plus, you know... I hand my young self the winning Lotto numbers (found on the FL Lottery website) for the drawing on January 6th 1990, which would be the day before my parent's anniversary. That would totally make me the #1 daughter, and my sister would have to suck it forever! (J/K I already AM the #1 daughter.)

[Hector]

Yes, them too! And Ginger Rogers, among others...

Pardon me for not including them in my initial post...

[MegoMark71]

For the record i have found peace since we have won a few world series now.
But before then i was going to get an autographed used babe ruth bat, go back to the night ole Georgie boy was conceived and beat the hell out of his dad till the bat itself disappeared cause the babe was never born.
I had serious hate toward the yankees.

[Joe90]

No Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Dolores del Rio, and Rita Hayworth???

Yes, them too! And Ginger Rogers, among others...

Pardon me for not including them in my initial post...

[Hector]

...then I'd hop through the ages and chase beautiful women like Cleopatra, Sophia Loren, Josephine Baker, Betty Grable, Maureen O'Hara, Marilyn Monroe, Bridgette Bardot, Rachel Welch, Goldie Hawn, Linda Carter, Diana Rigg, Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, and Eartha Kitt.

No Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Dolores del Rio, and Rita Hayworth???

[Joe90]

Ive always thought about this, first place I would be going, would be to see the crucifiction of christ, that would be the ultimate question answered for me, and then if possible back to the jurassic period.

The crucifixion is regarded as an historic event. Even non-Christian writers of the period had commented on it. It's the event that happened afterward that is disputed.

I'd invest in the stock market and become filthy rich, then I'd hop through the ages and chase beautiful women like Cleopatra, Sophia Loren, Josephine Baker, Betty Grable, Maureen O'Hara, Marilyn Monroe, Bridgette Bardot, Rachel Welch, Goldie Hawn, Linda Carter, Diana Rigg, Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, and Eartha Kitt.

[The Toyroom]

I think I'd want to use it to become an older guardian angel type to my younger self and offer some sage advice, perhaps tweaking my timeline slightly without altering it too much and risk the effects of creating a time paradox.

[Hector]

I...and then if possible back to the jurassic period.

But then you would miss the T-Rex of the Cretaceous period...

[MegoAddict]

i would go back in time, and figure out everyone's paypal account and buy Mego's till the cows come home...hahahahah

[alex]

Ive always thought about this, first place I would be going, would be to see the crucifiction of christ, that would be the ultimate question answered for me, and then if possible back to the jurassic period.

[madmarva]

A fun answer would be to go back to June of 1938 and buy a couple of copies of Action Comics No. 1. I'd also stop by and meet my grandfather, who died before I born.

[Remco Monster]

I'd go back a long time ago to a galaxy far, far away.

[jwyblejr]

You know what? Forget my Lucas idea. I'm getting a camcorder and starting a TV series. I'm calling it What Really Happened. It'll show what actually happened with the historical events. It'll be the highest rated show ever.

[Hector]

Ok...aside from the norm of seeing a long gone loved one...

I'd check out a few winning lotto ticket...and have pieces of them delicious pies afterwards...

[txteach]

I'd go back to 9-11 an warn everyone

I gotta say put a turbin on your head Damian and you could pass for Middle Eastern. I think you'd be arrested afterward because they would think you were involved.

I'd go back to 1982 and tell my uncle who died that I loved him like dad and thank him for being there. I'd also make sure he didn't die.