You're about to enter a Groundhog Day loop, but have 1 day to prepare - what do you do?

ktool · 1 year

Book refundable airfare to as many places as possible
Clean my room to make it presentable
Fuck that midnight shit, I'm doing 6am to 6am like the movie. No night worth remembering has ever ended by midnight.
Set up a date with your mom
Go to bed early so I'm perpetually rested by 6am. Never sleep again (for ten years)

dirtyuncleron69 · 1 year

I'll tell you what I would NOT do, drink a bunch of beer. No one wants a hungover groundhog day.

elgdav · 1 year

Buy two novels off this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels and over the course of the next 3652 days make sure the first thing I do is read a page from a book. I would have previously marked the page in which I would reach the final day of the groundhog day loop and so I would know when it would be time to win the lottery, get the girl etc. I know a bookmark would be useless but I think I would be able to have an inclin where I should continue from each morning.

bbibber · 1 year

Related : is it morally acceptable to do stuff during the loop that you'd normally find morally abject like murdering someone (knowing that everything is reset the day before)?

James-Lerch · 1 year

The trick is going to be keeping track of when the end of the loop is approaching so you don't get stuck with consequences.

For instance, stealing a fully loaded F-22 and strafing targets of opportunity sounds like fun until day 3652.

l_one · 1 year

Write an article on AskReddit asking what to do to prepare for that day, let the hivemind figure out the best/most clever options and then use those as they apply to me.

foobarr · 1 year

Get as much cash as possible.
Get as many different food types as I can muster to help cure food boredom.
While I'm at it, get soda, coffee, beer, wine, and liquor.
Do all laundry and clean the place up so I don't have to stare at crap for 10 years.
Top off my car's gas tank.
Download and install as many video games as possible so I don't have to keep reinstalling them.
Buy a guitar and training videos, maybe a bass too.
Buy a programming book for two or three different languages and install those languages.
Buy a Spanish and Latin learning software suite and install.
Make sure I'm at home by midnight.

cobrakai11 · 1 year

Whatever it is, I'm going to make absolutely sure I don't get thrown in prison.

FrankManic · 1 year

Erm... Go to New York City, I guess. I mean, if you've got ten years to kill you might as well go somewhere big enough and weird enough that there's ten years worth of things to do in one day.

Marski · 1 year

Fly to a large city and book the best room in the most expensive hotel. . It has to be near the sea/ocean, has nice beaches and a good weather forecast for the day.

geek_man · 1 year

I'd make sure my alarm clock didn't play the radio.

TheMadStork · 1 year

I'm just thinking about all the ways this could go horribly wrong....

You decide to travel to an exotic desination, where you hope to spend your groundhog day. Your flight is delayed due to bad weather, and once you're on the plane, it's nearly 11:45. At 11:58, the plane's wheels leave the tarmac, and you realize you should've upgraded from coach...or at least found an exit row. Your seat is broken and doesn't recline. The satellite TV doesn't work because of the storm. The only movie available is "Kazaam!" with Shaquille O'Neal. It's a 7 hour flight, and you're cursing yourself for not planning this better...5:00 am....the flight is turbulent, and you know you'll have to do it again for 10 years, but at least you're going to....the stewardess gets on the intercom: "Ladies and gentleman, the runway at our destination is closed due to snow, we will be continuing on to the closest airport, where we will shuttle you to your destination. We apologize for any inconvenience." Now the turbulence is starting to get bad....the plane starts to rattle....a loud CRACK...the oxygen masks fall out, and suddenly the plane is pitching wildly back and forth....it's a tailspin, plummetting toward the ground with your fellow passengers, everyone screaming.....you can see the landscape spinning out the window....getting closer and closer.....and for a moment, everything goes black. You wake up. You're back in your seat, on the same flight....the plane just took off.
11:45 pm: You're alone, riding the elevator up to your 5-star penthouse hotel suite to get settled in, make final preparations.....suddenly, the elevator stops. You press all the buttons...alarm...call...door open. Nothing works. The light goes out. Must be a power outage or something, you think....panic sets in. You try to pry open the doors, push as hard as you can....keeping going....almost there. You feel a slight tug near your shoulder blade, and suddenly your whole left side is in incredible, blinding pain, and you collapse to the floor. You pulled a muscle....you did get the door open...only slightly....in the darkness, you can just barely make out the brick wall 1 inch in front of the door. 11:57....you really need to use the bathroom....you didn't use the one in the lobby because you knew you'd be upstairs in a minute....11:58...
At 8:00 pm, everything is going fine. You're completely prepared, and you've spent the whole day gathering the exact supplies you need and your 5-star hotel room looks perfect. No elevator problems at all. Suddenly, you decide you'd really like to have some weed in the room with you. You still have 4 hours, so you call a friend who knows a guy downtown. Your friend can't make it because he has to be up early for work the next day, but he gives you the guy's address. You arrive at 9:15, only to discover "the guy" is an undercover police officer. He arrests you and brings you down to the station, where they book you and put you in a holding tank. You're all alone. At 11:15, you're allowed to make a phone call. You figure you're okay....you'll just get someone to bail you out, deal with the small misdemeanor fine in 10 years...you laugh to yourself, and call your friend. But it goes straight to voicemail....try again, same thing happens. Then you remember. He had to be up early for work tomorrow....he works in this building....he has a T-Mobile cell phone. He's the only person you know in town. You step back into the holding tank....all alone. 11:20....a paddy wagon arrives....you can overhear the officers: "2 rival gangs, everyone arrested at once during an all-out street brawl." A 2nd paddy wagon arrives, full of winos who are all screaming and babbling drunken nonsense....the smell of urine. The officer who arrested you comes to open the door of the holding tank, and they all file in one by one. Once everyone is inside, there's only room for you to stand. 11:58....the officer slams the door shut...as he's locking door, he looks up at you: "Don't worry," he says, "We can't hold you for more than 24 hours." 11:58....the guy next to you doesn't look so good....he's wobbling back and forth....he turns toward you, about to look up and say something....but before you can even react, he vomits all over your shoes....11:59...you're trying to remember why you wore sandals.

l_one · 1 year

Get as much money available as possible, keep half as cash and half on a debit card.
Get as many credit cards with as high a limit as possible (not sure if 1 day is long enough for this).
Send emails requesting meetings to speak with every college professor at the local college.
Double check my broadband and computer are working properly.
Clean all my guns and load all magazines (for target shooting, not some killing spree).
Clean my apartment and have my bedding freshly washed.
Install as many language packs as possible for Rosetta Stone.
Fill my gas tank and check tire pressure.
Call in to work and request a personal day.
Buy a frequency scanner that covers all emergency services.
Call and find out which of my friends-with-benefits are available that day.
Go grocery shopping and buy a massive variety of quality foods and ingredients to reduce food related boredom and for after-sex foods.
Create online stock-trading accounts and max out some of my credit cards to have the most money to experiment with. With 10 years to play around this should lead to amazing high-risk high-reward trades as long as there are enough stocks that change value by significant percentages during that day. I'll make a habit of this one and when the loop finally ends I'll have a nice amount of money.
Research every lottery that I can win in that day. I'll also plan on buying (and timing when I buy) entire rolls of instant-win tickets at gas stations, counting exactly where the winners are and memorizing those for additional profits.
Contact everyone I know from all the martial arts clubs in town and ask to meet up for technique work and sparring practice on that day. Also plan to look around for mean drunks at bars or where ever else I can get into a fight and use those as real-world practice. I'll be quite a bit more technically skilled after those 10 years.
Eat a healthy meal the night before and get to sleep early as I can manage (with all the prep work to do).
Have my guitar re-strung and tuned. I'll plan on using Youtube and the like for instructional videos (stole this good idea from foobarr).

mycatguinness · 1 year

Lend against my house and get as many loans as possible. Book a luxury super fast personal jet, this plane will fly me anywhere in the world as quickly as possible. Fill plane with parachutes and shit. Hire a team of assistants and absolute top notch professionals to work for me, these people will be on call for the entire 24 hours and will be able to organize anything for me anywhere in the world, no matter what it is. Load plane with clothes and make sure it has access to anything I might need on demand.

There are loads of other things I can think of, but basically on the day before I get in the jet, get it to fly to the best city in the world and a central one, get it to land, then tell it to get ready to fly again and to lock the hatch and get ready to fly at two minutes past midnight. I fall asleep at 4pm the day before with the help of drugs so I don't screw it up, I get one of my assistants to wake me up at 12:01. So I will wake up every day with almost 24 full hours to spare, in a personal jet ready to take me anywhere in the world, parachutes so I can land anywhere in the world (that isn't storming) and a team of assistants that can do all the setting up for me for anywhere I want to go. At first everything will be a mess, but eventually I will learn how to control the situation better and appear to be a person who should be served quickly.

There are many other thing I would do, like get organize guns somehow on the plane and shit.

It would be both incredible and unbearable at the same time. I would learn how to accomplish so much, I could eventually learn any secret (I have unlimited stabs at it after all!). But nothing would ever change. I could probably meet, or at least see, most people who live on the planet. I would eventually learn how to lie my way into presidents houses, sneak into the CIA, figure out all the amazing people I could fuck in that 24 hours.

But knowing me, my actions would probably get noticed and I would wake up every day to the plane being surrounded by cops, then I would spend eternity in jail or figuring out how to take on ALL the cops every single time and spending eternity on the run, a chase scene that keeps replaying itself and changing itself slightly each time.

No matter what happens, I think it would take a looooooong time for me to be bored of it. I would do it if I could, even if it meant it really was eternity.

DumpsterJedi · 1 year

Start jerking off right before the time switch into groundhog day, time it so I cum right after the new day starts (6am or midnight, idk)... start every morning for 10 years with a seemingly instant orgasm.

Bonus: your head is clear and you can focus on doing badass shit other than trying to fuck.

famebrella · 1 year

Absolutely nothing, I am about to end up in a consequence free loop for 10 years. I would like to have to solve problems, find cash, learn the timing so I can steal money from banks.

Reapr · 1 year

Find out Angelina Jolie's schedule for the next day

PalermoJohn · 1 year

On a different note: If you could sign up for the exact amount of days, for how long would you sign up?

tamrix · 1 year

VEGAS BABY

isignedupforthis · 1 year

There are lot amazingly good answers here. And as a person that lives in my own apartment I can suggest one very important thing I have not seen yet in this thread.

Fill your fridge as full as possible with various foods. Shopping big time.

Good thing if you want to cook during those 10 years practically never go shopping.

glinsvad · 1 year

Upgrade internet connection to fastest possible.
Take out a moderate sized loan to cover spendings.
Get a barber's hot shave and an expensive hair cut.
Cook up a nice batch of chili and leave it in the fridge.
Thorough clean-up of apartment & re-install OS.
Schedule a meeting with thesis advisor the next day.
Send flowers to ex-gf / open a window for booty calls.
Rent a Ford GT and a speedboat for two days. Install GPS.
Buy loads of new clothes, shoes and sports wear / gadgets.
Check the weather forecast and pick appropriate attire.
Call friends to make sure they aren't busy tomorrow.
Buy top notch booze in bulk because fuck yea, no hangovers.
Make reservations for two at all my favorite restaurants.
Call (contact) to get on the VIP list for a couple of night clubs.
Go to bed real early and wake up fully rested just before sunrise.

[deleted] · 1 year

Move near Scarlett Johannson. Begin planning my one day divorce-swoon-breakupsex scheme.

HideousInfant · 1 year

Break into a brothel, bring a bottle of sweet baby ray's barbecue sauce.

cunnl01 · 1 year

Pick up some kind bud, no sense wasting half the day trying to procure it. I'll need to have a few "wake n bake" mornings over the course of 10 years.

Pay for a nice hotel/resort that I plan to stay for a week (this way I wouldnt need to pay) and wake up to 4 star breakfast every morning.

Also arrange to have two extra rooms booked and ask high-end, expensive escorts stay the night in those rooms. Pay them in advance wit the understanding that you want to visit as soon as you wake up so each morning you can decide if you want to visit them to collect on their services. Could be handy as for the entire 10 years you will be unable to develop any meaningful relationships.

With food,drugs/alcohol(minibar) and sex taken care of, all I would need is a laptop to soak up infomation while im in my 10 year limbo.

gurlubi · 1 year

Sell everything and borrow as much as you can. Advertise a big conference in Vegas for G-day. Pay people to come! Ask the press to be there, and some bookmakers from Vegas, and pay them too. Pretend you're a mind-reader or something. Then you just gamble on "guessing" what your audience has in their pockets, or the color of their underwear, etc. You'll be making outrageous money (after 100 days of "learning"). By noon, you should be on every news show in the planet (since you're a real mind-reader) -- after 500 days, if you're doing it right. Which is going to open up doors for more extravagant wages... like predicting who is staying on the 3rd floor of the closest hotel, or what the president, Oprah and Ashton Kutcher just had for dinner. Find out who are the richest gamblers in the world and challenge them. Fly over to their house (with the press following you) and bet millions that you can guess their underwear color. Increase the bets. Become richer than Bill Gates in a day. Create worldwide mercenary force, end malnutrition, and invade Antartica. For fun. And science. Thank the groundhog.

TL;DR -- become richer than Bill Gates in a day.

[deleted] · 1 year

*Call in sick *Fly ASAP to MIT. *Blow loads of money for a nice place within walking distance to campus. *Schedule a meeting with a series of tutors. *Befriend college hotties. *Find a dealer. *Once loop is broken, test out of most classes, get PHD. teach.

msingerman · 1 year

Buy one of those jetblue unlimited flights tickets.

TheLateThagSimmons · 1 year

Cash payday loans. Every single cash payday loan place I could find.
First available flight to a cool city where women are easy to pick up so I can have unprotected sex with a different woman every day/night, Las Vegas or New York.
Buy a really nice suit (I know I'll regret dropping $5,000 at the end of the loop, but strutting around New York or Vegas in a perfect Tom Ford suit for 10 years... oh yeah). Possible kink is that they don't have one in my size and can't tailor it by tonight.
I think some people already mentioned renting a supercar, a ferrari or similar.
Look up studios in said city for music lessons, martial arts lessons, etc.
Drugs; Lots of them. Buy every kind you can, even the worst ones. I've never done them, but can you imagine how awesome heroine or meth has got to be when it's your first hit every single time?
New expensive underwear. 'Nuff said.

Zamarok · 1 year

Get 1g of as many different marijuana strains I can find. Also 25 hits of LSD, 50g of shrooms, and a 1/2oz of cocaine. The extra is for friends.
Get lots of disguises and outfits for different situations.
Shave/shower/brush teeth/do hair.. Take care of my body so I look fresh everyday.
Cash, passport, change of clothes, laptop, food for one day. All in a backpack, ready to go.
Rent a Lancer Evo. It's nice car, but not too expensive, so cops won't be suspicious of it. Shotgun in the back, glock under the seat.
Fill fridge/pantry full of ingredients, like all kinds of meats, veggies, spices/seasonings, pastas, breads, cheeses, sauces, beverages, baking ingredients and accessories, and fruits. And alcoholic beverages of all kinds.
Download hundreds of movies, shows, and songs with this T1 (it's actually T3) line I have access to.
Buy a bass, drum kit, and keyboard or piano. I already have my guitar, so I will master all of these instruments with my time. Getting a teach in the loop is impractical, I'll teach myself with YouTube and the rest of the internet.
Buy/rent some recording equipment. Record two albums (oops, I can't record ina loop. I'll compose and master them, then record out of the loop). The first will be covers of my favorite songs to play. The second will be songs that I've written. I will be playing every instrument with the ones listed in the last bullet. I still plan to do this whether I get stuck in a loop or live life regularly.
Not use + return everything I bought/rented on the last day, to make sure I get all my money back lol
???
PROFIT!

EDIT: That T1 line is actually a T3. It goes from ISP -> company server, which I have access to. Also, I realize that recording music during the loop would be pointless; I'll wait till I get out.

[deleted] · 1 year

buy condoms

Edit: orrrrrrrrrrrr....not

pwnies · 1 year

I personally would do a few things:

Alert a few key and close people, and tell them first and foremost not to call. I'd try and eliminate any possible calls for that day (I think getting the same call from someone at the same time every day for 10 years would get tedious).
Book and move into a very high end hotel room for the following two nights.
Rent one nice car and one moving van for the following two days, and drive each of them to the hotel.
Set an alarm clock that randomly goes off at 12:05 am 15% of the time. I'd ensure that the random number generator on the system the clock was on relied on entropy from the surrounding environment (namely heat) - that way my body itself would affect the outcome (the only variable that would change). This should be pretty easy as most computers use entropy from their environment to generate random numbers.
Buy two guns - a rifle and a handgun. I'd load a blank for the 2nd bullet in the magazine in the handgun.
Cash. All of it. In a duffle next to my bed.
Rent a suit

All I can think of right now, curious to see what you guys come up with.

mrsbaltar · 1 year

sigh People always seem to miss the main existential idea behind this movie. EVERY DAY of your life IS Groundhog Day. Each day is nearly identical to the one before it. All of your actions have no cosmic significance when played out against a long enough timeline. You are free to act as you wish, but how SHOULD you act?

Chaos_Ex_Machina · 1 year

-Run as long as I can until my legs stop working. -Lift weights until my muscles are useless. -Get a ridiculous haircut. -Stay up as late as possible drinking until I pass out. -Start a fight with my wife.

The next ten years are going to be awesome!

languagehacker · 1 year

Harold Ramis thinks Phil Connors would have to spend at least 60 years to really go through all of the emotions he went through and develop all the knowledge he did. Seriously, That's some small-town Thornton Wilder crap.

If I could prepare, I would sure to rest my head that night in the most expensive hotel I could find in a real city -- nowhere near Pittsburgh, let alone Punxsutawney.

There are plenty of reasons to set the movie in a small town, but one of them is that if it were set in a city, it would have taken the character so much longer to change as a person. It's a more restricting scenario, and it's forced exposure to the things Phil Connors kind of dislikes -- namely, other people, especially the provincial kind. In a city, Phil would have too many opportunities to actually enjoy himself. It would have taken him much longer to explore the phenomenon of reliving the same day as some kind of catalyst to better himself.

honusnuggie · 1 year

I live in a city where the variety of beer and food and pretty women is abounding. So.... nothing. I am ready.

ApokalypseCow · 1 year

Get a nice hotel room booked for one night in Vegas, buy a stopwatch and some various software for languages (Spanish, Thai, Japanese, German, etc), withdraw a couple grand from my accounts, and spend a month or two watching craps and roulette tables, figuring out when (using the stopwatch from wake-time), where, and on what to bet to make a lot of money very quickly. Work that into a morning routine, stopping for lunch.

Thereafter, mark time by the one-page-a-day method in some books chosen for a combined page-length slightly less than the number of repeats. After lunch, I go back to my room and learn stuff. Langauges, skills, martial arts (to what extent I can without the ability to build muscles), etc. I will have the money to procure nearly whatever I could want for the remainder of each day for training or entertainment purposes.

When my time limit is within a few months of hitting, spend the rest of the day in the casinos, maximizing profits, and start memorizing numbers to every lottery drawing that I can purchase tickets for (call relatives to purchase tickets for drawings in their states, convincing them to do so by telling them exactly where they are, what they were doing when I called, what they had for lunch that day, who else they talked to that day, etc, after asking them these questions in other conversations), what sports events and races to bet on, etc. Also, start going to every place locally that sells scratch-off tickets and buy them out, seeing if any of them are big winners, as the casinos will likely be kicking me out after a whole day of big wins. If there are any big win scratchers, memorize what, where, and how many tickets in it was at that time of day.

NathanExplosions · 1 year

Eat bad shrimp. Drink 4 bottles of Brut and get arrested in downtown Detroit. Make sure its a weekend so the judge wont be in to grant bail. Piss off the cops so their good and angry at you. Also, cut your fingernails too short.

A-punk · 1 year

1: Find out where Dane Cook will be on that day

2: Go to that place.

3: Get as much weaponry as possible.

4: Be disappointed on last day of Groundhog day.

KabelGuy · 1 year

Get plane.
Fly high enough.
Wait for 11:40am.
Jump out.

TobyTrash · 1 year

yup - just started watching "Groundhog day" again.

bambiundead · 1 year

Make sure I took my birth control the day before. Also, pray that my period doesn't start the next day.

[deleted] · 1 year

What long term goals would you have? One I thought of is a romantic dinner with Angelina Jolie. Don't plan ahead at all. You have 24 hours each day, with your knowledge of the past day to get you one step closer. Within a month I bet you could have all the tricks figured out of how you track down where she is, can run in to her, start a convo that works, and eventually after several weeks of this acheive your goal. Then pick a new person and start again. There are many life experiences that occur within a 24 hour period, but take weeks/months to plan. 10 years would fly by.

Thimble · 1 year

After reading through the comments, I've concluded that I'd do the following:

set the alarm to 12am. This way I can either wake up, or go back to sleep (setting the alarm again or not).
stay at a ridiculously expensive hotel in New York City - the city with the most variety and excitement. I'll also rent a really nice car.
try and be in as excellent shape as possible. This includes eating very lightly and with fresh foods the previous day and keeping hydrated. Get a good nights sleep on the previous evening as well.
have all my accumulated assets in cash on my person.
have lots of credit cards with a high limits
bring along a wide assortment of clothing to choose from

Cataclyst · 1 year

Exercise so I'm all ripped for the limitless unprotected sex I'm about to have.

fuzzysarge · 1 year

I would start to pay attention to the number 3 and check out the counselor's figure.

captainzissou · 1 year

If you guys like hypothetical questions like this, you should check out r/ifquestions.

ToadShortage · 1 year

Set up tee-times at all golf courses within 200 miles.

I'll be able to go pro when I snap out of it.

vitty · 1 year

I think you'd need more than 1 day to prepare.

Everyone's all like "take out 12 credit cards" or "empty my bank account and keep the cash by my bed". Anyone ever tried this? It'd take me 3 days to transfer my money to my current account (who the fuck SAVES in a 0.2% interest current account), and even then I'm not sure on the rules of withdrawing it all in cash.

And getting guns and drugs. You're still you 1 day before. Have none of you bought drugs before? Drug dealers don't just drive to your house will 12kg of cocaine.

Also, if you arrested in your attempts, WORSE 10 YEARS EVER. Even if you don't, having an arrest warrant out on you for 10 years would be pretty shitty (or fun).

You could do some awesome shit with a week to prepare though.

EddieLomax · 1 year

For those of you stocking up on drugs, just wait until you enter the loop. That way if you get busted trying to buy them, you're only in jail one day.

I'd get a cheap flight to New York City, book a nice hotel room, and call in sick to work.

The rest would work itself out.

NinjaBob · 1 year

Fly to London, Paris, or any other central flight hub in Europe. Spend my days exploring ruins museums and immersion learning as many languages as possible.

Download and install as many video games as possible so I don't have to keep reinstalling them.

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