I Time Travel

I prepared my voting information several weeks ago by going online. I printed out my official polling location and my personal information including the option to have a barcode for the ease of the poll workers to quickly pull up my info. At least that's what the website touted. (In actuality they didn't even look at the paper.) I also printed a google map on the backside of my paper so that I would know directly where to go, whilst minimizing the excessive paper.

I marked it in my paper calendar book, not my phone calendar. Typically my phone and book coincide. I had also included the actual perforated stub from my initial voter registration. Tucked it all away in the back of the junk drawer.

Fast forward, I plucked it from the back of the drawer as I headed out the door to go and vote today. I became rather impressed with my little arrangement and pleasantly surprised that there was a map on the back of it. The barcode was the icing on the cake. What a prepared little voter I was.

Then it struck me--the reason I was so impressed was because I don't remember doing all of that. I mean, it did come back to me as I retrieved it so I haven't completely lost it.

I wonder if in the future I do become a time traveler. If I was able to time travel I would come back to the years before I discovered I could time travel and do nice little things for myself--like get a nifty personalized voter package together. Then I would secretly laugh at myself when I tried to remember doing all of that, but could not.