Microwave Joe
‘What is that smell?’
I gagged, my senses assailed by the foul odour coming from the kitchen.
‘My experiment,’ my younger brother replied proudly as he followed me toward the source of the putrid scent permeating the house. With ten years between us in age, my brother had always been a bit of mystery to me, but never more so than as I gazed in horror at the sticky mess congealing on the microwave safety plate.
Safety plate? Huh! Nothing was safe around this kid.
‘What did you do?’
‘I’ve been freezing my GI Joe for three weeks. I tried to melt him with Dad’s lighter, but no go. Then I had the idea that it might melt in the microwave, so I put him in for twenty minutes. Turned out cool, hey?’
Melted plastic cool? God, how was I going to explain this to Mum and Dad?
© Alison Pearce 2009
Comments
Doh.
Did you clip his ears?
Did you know that if you put a $5 note in the microwave for 10 secs or so you end up with a shrunken note approx 1/3 the size?
Makes a cool key ring.
Not sure about the 10 seconds. Could get expensive experimenting till you get it right.
We never told him about the 5 dollar note theory. I dread to think of the potential cost!!!
– Alison Pearce
I could smell it! My friends daughter put one of those wheat bags in the microwave for (I think) 20minutes, while she was outside in the garden, anyway, it was very burnt and smelt very foul!
I will never forget that smell Chanel!! I too have made that mistake with the wheatbag – it does not compare!!!
– Alison Pearce
Oh, no! What a mess.
Reminds me of a situation I witnessed where an urban working mom’s small son had risen while she still slept and put God-only-knows-what in the microwave resulting in a copious smokeout and subsequent evacuation of the whole apartment building. As she stood there before the firemen, sleepy-eyed, embarassed, and irritated in the aftermath, having been interrogated at length, she stated plainly and simply her solution to the situation, “That’s okay, he gonna git his ass beat!”
That stuck with me. :)
– Alison Pearce
This is a great story and so evocative of the kind of things kids do…I had a weird dream the other night and I woke up and thought Alison would make a great story out of this…
Thanks Janis!!
– Alison Pearce
Alison-
I had a transformer one time when I was about six years old. Well, I decided he was going to fight in a storm, so I took him apart and repeatedly flushed him down my Mom’s tolilet. She had the call the plumber and I’m 28 years old today, and every time she gives me a gift she tells me not to flush it down the toilet…lol….I miss the innocence of youth and the captive pull of a child’s imagination. Great story! Nice work!
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What a flashback!! My brother (who thankfully grew up to be a perfectly well adjusted man!) had a transformer – Optinus Prime I believe. It was the only toy vehicle he did NOT try to destroy in some way!
– Alison Pearce
Good Lord don’t let my kids see this story! They have done just about everything but this. :) Solar
– Alison Pearce
Brothers…huh?! You have to love them though hehe…..
Indeed! Thank you again :)
– Alison Pearce