Vacation in an Infinite Time Loop

You wake up to the sound of ocean waves crashing on the beach, as you have every morning for the last 207 years. It never gets old. You slowly slide out of your horsehair mattress, push aside your satin sheets, and descend into your fuzzy slippers for some light stretching. Watching yourself in the tall mirror, you can’t help but smile. Before the time loop started, you achieved peak physical condition, so this is like looking at a moving work of art. Sure, behind you a seagull always comes through the window to take a white dump on the floor, but nothing can spoil your infinite island vacation.

You throw on a plush robe and make your way to the four star hotel restaurant downstairs for brunch. It’s a long buffet with plenty of variety, even after hundreds of years. You fix yourself a breakfast sandwich with french toast bread, scrambled eggs, walnut shrimp, ketchup and salsa, and apple strudel filling to hold it all together, along with a chocolate sauce mimosa. Yum!

A waiter carrying a four layer birthday cake walks boldly across the floor, not knowing his shoelaces are untied. You’ve seen this play out so many times. The waiter is going to trip…

What would you like to do?

• Catch the waiter and the cake.
• Let the waiter comically fall.
• Get your meal comped by complaining.