I'm going to rebel against my father by not also being the inventor of the CD-ROM
It's no surprise that children often take a very different direction than their parents did in life. It's the natural course of things, the nature of teenage rebellion.
An overly conservative parent might have a wild child, while a permissive hippie parent might give birth to a child who turns out to be (gasp) a Republican, as explored in in the popular 1980s television series Family Ties.
And I suppose I'm no different. The last thing I ever wanted to do was invent the CD-ROM, as my father did.
Luckily this was never really much of a potential issue, because my father had already invented the CD-ROM.
It could not be invented again. I don't know how that would work. I guess I could have invented it again, but then someone would say, "No, that already exists."
Probably followed by, "Don't you know that? I thought your dad invented it."
But even if it had been possible, I would have absolutely refused to do so. Down with the old man, you know?
I still had a preternatural interest in science and tinkering, though, so I decided that my version of rebelling would be to surpass my father's achievements in the field of inventing.
I worked day and night to create the world's first-ever working time machine.
After many years, I achieved this. I immediately went back to 1963 and stopped the JFK assassination.
I then tried to tell someone nearby what I had done, and also how much I had surpassed my father, by explaining that I had built a time machine, and how incredibly complex that is.
I then told them how the measly CD-ROM was put together. Sadly, I forgot this was in 1963 and the CD-ROM had not been invented yet. They didn't believe I was a time traveler who had a working time machine, but they did follow my instructions to create the first-ever CD-ROM, making me, the son of the inventor of the CD-ROM, also the inventor of the CD-ROM.
Read your Greek tragedies, friends. Not on a CD-ROM, please. Actually, ideally travel back in time to watch them take place. I can lend it to you.
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