Time Traveler’s Convention Not Attended: Everyone Shows Up Yesterday!

In an astonishing turn of events, the highly-anticipated Time Traveler’s Convention found its host city devoid of attendees on the appointed day. However, a bewildering revelation soon befell entire globe that everyone had shown up exactly a day early!

The future-led backward march started when renowned theoretical physicist, Dr. Emmet Tempus, stumbled upon a perplexing discovery in his private time travel project, “ChronoLeap.” He sent out invites to all the known (and unknown) temporal navigators like himself for a grand convention where they could share experiences, swap notes, and decide once and for all whether the chicken truly came before the egg. But little did he realize, the definition of ‘time’ for time travelers is, to put it mildly, unconventional!

On the scheduled day of the convention, Dr. Tempus was faced with empty chairs, cold coffee, and a glaring absence of all his invitees. After hours of waiting, he was just about to pack his newly invented “Atomic Hemispherical Time Sphere” and chalk the day up as a lost cause, when he gazed upon the newspaper date. Suddenly, it hit him – the delegates hadn’t failed to show up. They’d simply attended the sensation of the century… a day before it was due!

How could such a mishap transpire, you might ask? The science of time travel isn’t based on the Gregorian calendar we mere non-time-traveling mortals adhere to. One man’s Monday could be another time traveler’s Friday, or vice versa. Thus, in the grand scheme of time dimensions, the designated day of the convention may have been ‘today’ for Dr. Tempus but was, decisively, ‘yesterday’ for all his guests.

It quickly became apparent that every single participant had been inadvertently gathered in the same location, but a day too early, without the host. As one disoriented time traveler purportedly exclaimed over a steaming cup of extinct Mammoth broth, “I knew I should’ve taken a left turn at the Jurassic period!”

When the temporal turbulence subsided, tales of the ensuing chaos reached today from yesterday. Reports of a cheese-loving time-naut interacting with a Victorian-era robot, a supposed alien sighting (which later turned out to be just an art deco android), and an argument over paradox-free ‘time loops vs spatial warps’ heatedly discussed over moon margaritas set the day alight with pure, undiluted hilarity.

This didn’t stop the eager time-traveling folks from having a ball, more or less. They exchanged theories and techniques, played ‘guess that century’, debated whether ‘Back To The Future’ was a documentary or work of fiction, and voted on the most scenic era (spoiler alert: the Renaissance holds pride of place)!

However, they also had the opportunity to delve into some serious matters. Case in point, the unanimous decision to avoid the Big Bang, should the need arise, for fear of ‘diverging timelines’, was heartily agreed upon.

As for Dr. Tempus? His tale walks the line of tragic irony. After all his groundwork to bring about the landmark convention and create the companionship of clockwatchers, he completely missed the event himself!

In response to the colossal time kerfuffle, Dr. Tempus could only comment, “Oops!” and promised to adjust his innovative “Atomic Hemispherical Time Sphere” to fit the unconventional schedules of the time travelers.

So, with time being such a flexible concept, we’re curious to know, wouldn’t everyone eventually meet at the next big Time Travelers’ Convention… or should we say, the last one? But for now, isn’t the idea of a convention that’s already happened but technically hasn’t yet… confoundingly delicious?
Maybe next time, they should send the invites yesterday for a party that’s tomorrow, just to be on the safe side… or the safe century! Time travel, ladies and gents… it’s a wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey minefield!