The Special Trip

When you sometimes thinks about strange histories, rarely you could imagine something like the next:

I was just walking  around my garden when I heared an strange noise. It was my neighbor, he is normally a quiet man and that’s why I was so surprised. Carefully, I walked next to the garage door, where the sound was louder. Then I heard that my neighbor was calling me:

-Come on Joe don’t stay there! I will show you my best invention, it has taken almost my life time. -So he opened the big door and then I could see where the noise was comming for: a kind of no-weels car was flying two feet above the floor. I had never seen anything like that. My neighbor was looking me proudly, and then he said:

-It could go faster than the best car, train, plane or rocket, so much so it could travel back of time and returnes here. We could change idiot human decisions!

-We?- I said. – And what kind of idiot human decisions are you talking about?

- Yes, Joe. You and me are going to travell back in time! You will see what kind I’m talking about.- Surprised and a few scared, I came to my house. My neighbor and I’d travel the next day afternoon. That night was too hard to slept, I was thinking: <<is it true? Is it dangerous?>> and, <<What we will do there?>>.

The sun was shining trough my curtains, when it woke me up. It was the important day! I had breakfast as fast as I could and I ran to my neighbor house. He was waiting me, he said me that we had to work very hard.

I was so tired, but the moment had arrived. We went into the special ship, my neighbor hit the green button and everything started to move. The garage was starting to spin faster and faster. Then, the walls desapeared and grass was starting to grow in the floor. Fear took my body control and my hands covered my eyes. After a few minutes, my neighbor said:

- Be quiet, my friend. We have already arrived!-. So I opened my eyes and through my fingers I saw something very strange, we was on a grassland and there wasn’t any house around! - Where are us?-. I shouted.      
- In babylonian in the eighteenth century BC. – answered quietly.- we are going to eliminate the first bank in history. – I couldn’t believe that, but fear silenced me. We started to walk to the main city that it was in front of us. Then, we went through narrow streets until a dirty little temple. A priest was there and he was very surprised about our “modern” dresses. My neighbor began to spoke to him (he spoke the Babylon language, but he translated it me later):

 

-Excuse me Mr. Priest, let me tell you that you are going to create a very dangerous business. This will be so famous that it will make bad the people. So much so that in four thousand years it will start a global economic crisis, and lots of people will not have work or money.

- And how do you nou that?- asked de priest.

- Because we are people from the future! Do what I said and you will save lots of lifes!

He was scared, but after a few minutes, he was agree. We went out of the temple.

- Do you think that he will close his bank?- I asked.

- I don’t know, but if someone thinks about the other people, he would do it.  

Then, we came in the present, and everything was changed, the people was very peacefull and they weren’t so rich or so poor. And the best of all was that I was feeling so good.

My neighbor and I made several trips correcting what my neigbor said: “idiot human decisions”. However, I don’t think that this are idiot decisions, I think that it are actions driven by egoism and human whim. Something that we must change.