Bill found the time not to his liking, so he changed it. Several times, in fact. It got to the point where no one knew what time it was anymore, not even him. Not even the universe as a whole. There was a point where it all  got a little tangled, so nothing follows sequential order at this point. People can cite examples of something happening next week that prompted them to do something now, or something changing in a moment just because they neglected to do something several years from now. A number of people have tried to get on top of making sure the continuum is more or less intact by taking serious charge of their timelines, but you know how people are. Not all of them do, and the problem only gets worse.

The present moment may shift multiple times in an instant just because someone somewhere wasn’t on top of their own timeline, and that, of course, has ripple effects on everyone else’s. Currently, someone’s waiting on Hubert to arrive at a certain time for a meeting, but he never shows up because Cindy never got the brakes on her car fixed which caused an accident several months ago which was supposed to have been tomorrow, but the end result is Hubert’s dead now. The meeting will never happen – or never will have happened – or never have will happened? – and so the company had to close its doors because it was relying on this, and now everyone’s homeless.

Yup. Fortunately, this is not the worst possible timeline, but that’s only because there’s no longer any such thing as a timeline.

Anyway, we’ll be firing Bill once we get this all sorted out.

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