The following is my essay for a fifth-grade, town-wide creative writing contest, 12 January 1988. Through some criteria, the English teachers of that grade determined that I got the highest score in town. The assignment was to answer some question relating to what I would do if I had a time machine… I have maintained the original spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Because my teacher told me that I had scored so high, it inflated my ego and motivated me down a road to writing.

 

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If I had a time machine I would go to the year 2123. Where the saphysicated electronics come in to the ordenary home. I have all the electronic luxuries I every dreamed of. I would love to live under the sea. Like Atlantis and Pacifica. An ordenary day of luxuries would be like this. I get up in the morning and step on a moving floor escalator to the bathroom.. Then I would sit in a chair and push a buttom and a dashboard would come down from the roof with a lot of other buttons. Then I would push a button marked toothbrush and a sink would come out of the floor with my toothbrush and toothpaste. After that I would push another buttom marked face and out of the sink came a washcloth and soap. After I’m done I would push a button marked close and the dashboard and sink went away. Then I would go to the kitchen and on a computer and push out the food I want to eat. Then I would put the disc in a machine that washes them and put them away. Then i would go to the livingroom and ajust my chair by pushbutton I would put on the tv. Then screen Is about half the size of a movie screen. It’s about time to go to school now, I am going to push a buttom on my chair. A moving computer came over with some tapes. I put #1 in the computer and the sound of a lady teacher came on the speaker of the computer. After school I propably went into a small room called the docking room, in there was a mini sub. Then i could ride all around the city. Then i would come in and wash up have supper. I would go to bed and them I would push another button that sang lullabies. That’s the end of a ordenary day.

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