scottyrocks
I'll Lock Up
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I'm surprised nobody's yet suggested the Gary Sparrow expedient of making friends with a printer -- someone willing and able to perhaps forge certain necessary and helpful documents. There were plenty of skilled forgers around in the Era -- especially during the war era, when the country was awash in counterfeit ration coupons and the like. It wouldn't have taken too much poking and probing to come up with someone willing to do a little job for a small financial consideration, and since the instant-verification culture of the Internet didn't yet exist there's a pretty good chance you could get away with it. Of course, if you *did* get caught, you'd better have a good backup story ready -- "I'm a time traveler from the 21st Century" might have landed you in what was quaintly known at the time as "the Laughing Academy."
I'm a honest guy and almost never think of doing things in a less than legal way, so that never occurred to me.
atticus finch said:I would almost have to “un-learn” the current law from scratch…if that makes any sense.
Makes perfect sense. As a teacher, I know so much about my own era that I think it would be extraordinarily difficult to 'keep my mouth shut' about things that haven't happened yet.
atticus finch said:I don’t know. I’m a half-way decent carpenter.
Me, too. I had forgotten about it which is ridiculous. considering I am always doing home improvements at home (duh). Although I'd have to learn plaster/lathe as drywall/pre-mixed joint compound wasn't invented yet.