The day I almost blew up my microwave
Ok, so I just realized our last few posts have been all sappy and lovey dovey...this should lighten things up a bit.Usually, my apartment is not what anyone would describe as clean. In fact, I've developed a convenient skill to where I can make it look as though I've cleaned, when in fact, I've spent 10 minutes clamoring around picking up dirty dishes from weeks before and throwing dirty clothes in the closet.
Every once in a while though, I get in a mood to clean (usually when even I'm disgusted by the filth that surrounds me.) Saturday was one of those days. I concentrated my efforts around the kitchen, everything from the waist up (I didn't have the energy to deal with the floors.) I pulled out the SOS pads, the citrus scented 409, and went to work. The stove, when I was finished, looked like it just came out of a Best Buy box. I even emptied out the spices from my spice jars in the rack, and cleaned each one of them.
Then came time to clean the microwave. I should probably preface this a bit. I can't ever recall cleaning the inside of my microwave. It's one of those out of sight out of mind things. So you can imagine the disgust when I opened the door and saw more colored food specs than white microwave plasticy material stuff. I tried scrubbing with a wash cloth, to no avail. Then I pulled out my trusty SOS pad for one more miracle. I scrubbed and scrubbed, but the difference was negligible. Then I remembered hearing from someone or something at some point in my life, that if you microwave a bowl of water for 5 minutes or so, it will steam the inside up and loosen the filth. So I gave it a try. Here's where the trouble started. Forgetting that the SOS pad consisted of nothing more than steel wool and soapy goodness, I set the microwave. Then, little shards steel wool glowing blue like radioactive fireflies, started shooting through the tiny confined space. Luckily I was able to stop the madness and remove the tiny shards before my little brownstone became a pile of overpriced rubble.
And thus concludes the day I almost blew up my microwave
posted by philthy @ 9:24 AM
2 Comments:
if it makes you feel any better, when i was a freshman i put my METAL to-go coffee mug in the microwave to heat up some water. yeah, i heated up more than water, that's for sure!!
oh, and everytime i read your blog i forget that superfun is also posting, and i end up asking myself questions like "phil watches 'sex and the city'?", or "phil looked into internet dating for single christian men?". note to self - read author before reading entry!
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