from the ANSWER

Funny. I don't see me here in the Rocket lounge. Real launch tanks of marstini don't lie.

What do you say when you get a call from yourself? The holo guy looked just like me. The ID said: 'Paul Dvorak unknown loc'. From the future? If this is me from the future why holocall? What are the charges like on a call I haven't made to myself yet? Since suit is paying I accept my crisper self image into the contact cone.

“Paul.”

“Paul.” Do I call myself 'Paul' like this thinking?

”You're me”

“I'm you?”

“From the future?”

“No.” “The past then?” “No.” “So...I've been cloned again?” Darn DNA scattered all over the place!

“Just shut up and listen to what I've got to say...”

“Who the hell are you? If you are me how come I don't know what I'm about to tell me?” Suit says the call comes from my sleeve holo company lami. How can I holo call myself? Does this cost me double? Looped up somehow? I would think me from the future would remember how drunk I am right now.

“Listen! There is no time! No time right now! “

“What time is it there? Here?” Suit says 14:25. Is this a call to someone else that's time lagged? Have I got a lagged line now? Pings me fat bandwidth...

“No! It's now everywhere! You are me now. I'm you and you're me. Now listen!”

“Why should I listen to me? I'm not a good judge of my character. I wouldn't believe anything I'd tell myself. I'm often right about being wrong. Like now cause I'm usually always right. If I'm me and so are you then you would know that I would never take any advice that I would give to anybody much less myself.”

“It's too late? Listen! Shut up and listen! It's too late now!”

“That's what I'm trying to tell me? That it's too late? Too late for what? Why didn't I tell me earlier?”

But I couldn't tell me anything more. I was gone with a sparkling 'blip'. Alone again in a bar full of drunks who weren't paying any attention.

“Paul.” Suit got something to say.

“Yes Carla?”

“What was that about?”

...so the smartest, richest pants in the whole solsys is asking me now for answers...