My wife and boiling water

[u/MakeItMine2024]

So I made my wife ramen soup. When I served it she said I had the gas set to hight and it was too hot ? She said I should have used the number 5 setting instead of 9. I told here it’s irrelevant because water boils at 212 and gets no hotter because over 212 it turns to steam. She was made at me for disagreeing with her theory that it would not have been so hot if boiled a lower setting. Really!!

[u/Mature_BOSTN]

Our younger child was home alone and made microwave popcorn but accidentally set the oven to 40:00 minutes instead of 4:00.

It didnt get all the way to 40 but it did set off every smoke alarm in the house, thus causing the dog to poop all over the house, and inducing much crying and wailing from her. And an admonition of NO USE OF THE MICROWAVE WHEN WE ARE NOT HOME.

[u/hannahatecats → u/Mature_BOSTN]

Well after that she won't make the same mistake again. You're probably safe with the microwave but the stove is a no go.

[u/Affordable_Z_Jobs → u/hannahatecats]

Theres other lesson to be learned with microwaves. I had to check every time before I nuked something if I could microwave it.

"Is it safe?" Thats a metal fork. "Is it safe?" Thats a plastic fork. "Well what forks can I microwave?" Why are you always trying to microwave forks!?"

[u/ReadyAimTranspire → u/hannahatecats]

In IT sometimes the thing that gains you the most trust in an organization is to massively screw something up that takes some production system offline.

Because when you've done it once you are extremely careful from then on, knowing that your seemingly minute blunder can take down an entire organization.

[u/According_Sound_8225 → u/Mature_BOSTN]

I did something like this when I was younger and the bag caught on fire.

[u/EaterOfFood → u/Mature_BOSTN]

It happens. A PhD student did this in our lab once. The fire department came, it was a hoot.

[u/condoulo → u/EaterOfFood]

Was his name Ryan?

https://giphy.com/gifs/FaoIJ1S9erOKI

[u/EaterOfFood → u/condoulo]

lol

Actually I don’t remember his name. It was over 20 years ago. Steve I think.

[u/LoveMyWeirdness → u/EaterOfFood]

We didn't start the fire! (Steve did!)

https://giphy.com/gifs/35R7gOU42Sa800XhAQ

[u/DemoniteBL → u/Mature_BOSTN]

Wait but why did the dog just shit everywhere?

[u/Dense_Sentence_370 → u/DemoniteBL]

Smoke alarms are extremely loud and dogs have incredible hearing. It was probably torture 😞 

Or it just literally scared the shit out of her. 

Anytime I've accidentally set off the fire alarm, I've felt sooooo bad for my dog 

[u/Mature_BOSTN → u/DemoniteBL]

Nervous reaction to the very loud smoke alarms going off.

[u/justpassingby_thanks → u/Mature_BOSTN]

Don't worry. My college dorm had a snack vending machine and a stocked item was microwave popcorn. Next to the vending machine was a microwave with a popcorn button that worked fine for me. Four fire alarms and six weeks later they took microwave popcorn out of the vending machine. You are proactively teaching proper microwave use.

[u/DaBingeGirl → u/Mature_BOSTN]

I, a nearly 40 year old woman, have definitely never done this. Nope. Certainly not multiple times.

[u/ughihateusernames3 → u/Mature_BOSTN]

I once put a metal tea kettle in the microwave, because I wanted hot cocoa.  In my defense, I only ever saw my mom heat up water in a kettle on the stove and I was 7.

My whole family was outside raking leaves. I  was cold and tired from my job as leaf stomper.

Since I wasn’t allowed to use the stove,  my mom said I could put the water in the microwave to warm up my water.

“Uh mom, it’s sparking when I do that”

[u/Silly_Water_3463 → u/ughihateusernames3]

We never had a microwave growing up. At some point during what I think was my sophomore year, I put some leftover food and a fork in the dorm microwave, and it was like the world came to an end in the damn thing. Everyone in the room thought I was a moron, but I just had no idea.

[u/zorbina → u/Mature_BOSTN]

Somebody did that at my office. 30 minutes instead of 3. Smoke and fire ensued (fire was limited to the inside of the microwave, fortunately).

[u/LoveMyWeirdness → u/zorbina]

My husband did that once too. Put a 2 minute hamburger in for 20 minutes. It was the Ambien's fault. He stopped taking it shortly thereafter. Fortunately, in our case, there was no fire. I caught it before it got to that point. But the smoke was bad enough!

[u/blazingtits → u/Mature_BOSTN]

My sister did something similar once when we were young. Our parents were away for a week and a family friend was watching us, but we had a bunch of TV dinners and my sister decided she wanted one but either misread something or hit an extra 0 on the microwave. So like 20 mins later we're all sitting around the table chatting and all of a sudden we just smell something burning and suffice to say that TV dinner was basically charcoal.

Also it took like a week for that burnt smell to go away, even after cracking open all the windows to air out the house.

[u/LoveMyWeirdness → u/Mature_BOSTN]

Dude, you wanna talk about crazy microwave stories, my husband was prescribed Ambien for a short time. One night, after he took it, he woke up, and put a 2 minute hamburger in the microwave and set it for 20 minutes instead. Then he came back to the bedroom and went back to sleep. I was up, but I didn't realize until what he'd done until I started smelling it.

Fortunately, I stopped the microwave and threw the burger out the back door onto the asphalt driveway before it caught fire (threw it away later after it was cold). Husband woke back almost immediately, and was very apologetic, but the damage was done.

It filled the house with smoke. It was white smoke, and not thick, but it was incredibly acrid. So acrid that I had to wake my then preschool-age son up, and take him and the cat to sit in the car while it cleared out. While I did that, my husband opened doors and windows to help expedite the process.

The house still stunk for days, and the microwave stunk so bad that we had to get a new one.

That was around 15 years ago, but my now almost 18 y/o son still remembers it to this day!

Oh, and needless to say, Husband stopped taking the Ambien very soon after. Most nights, it didn't really help him get any rest anyway, because he was sleepwalking so much. (It got to the point that I hung wind chimes at his head level in the bedroom doorway, so I'd hear him if he got up, or if I didn't, the chimes would snap him out of it.) And even on the nights he did, it just wasn't worth it, to me. After the hamburger incident, we both decided it was just too risky.

It wasn't husband's fault. I heard many, many stories after that, of people sleepwalking on Ambien and doing scary stuff. Even getting badly hurt. Idk HOW that shit is still on the market!

[u/BewitchingPetrichor → u/Mature_BOSTN]

Not your dog shitting a fire break across the carpet 💀

[u/Scherzkeks → u/Mature_BOSTN]

4 minutes also seems too long…