I've just been blamed by me ma for breaking the microwave. She is convinced that it's all the spicy food which I cook in it (which incidentally, I don't). She couldn't get her head around the fact that cooking spicy food in the microwave, wouldn't break it. Then my dad weighs in saying that he only makes porridge in it, as much saying "it couldn't be me as I only cook bland foods like porridge". THEN my ma says to me "well what about that popcorn you're always making in it?", to which I reply, "The microwave popcorn?". "Yes" she say. I suggest to her then, that cooking microwave popcorn should in theory, be fairly safe. Afterall, people have been at it for decades now and also, that the clue is in the name....: "MICROWAVE POPCORN".
After further wracking of the brains, me mam says that in no uncertain terms, that it wasn't her. Afterall, the last thing she cooked in it was fish (which we all know, is fairly bland). She also said that it couldn't be the butter that she cooked the fish in as it never over spilled the aluminium baking tin which the fish was in. Back up there a second there ma......, did you say aluminium tin? "yes".
After further trying to explain that putting aluminium in to a microwave is not advisable, and that that was probably the reason, she was still having none of it. It HAD to have been the spicy food! However, I kept trying to reason with her. "Mam, have you ever read "DO NOT MICROWAVE" on the instructions of a microwavable curry? Still didn't sink in.
My Dad (who I have slightly more faith in when it comes to matters such as these), suggests that maybe I'd cooked chicken in it. The chicken had then exploded and that was the reason for the broken microwave. It was at this point that I asked him if he'd seen the reports about those suicide chicken bombers in Afghanistan. The humour escaped him though and confusion ensued.
After all this, I retired to the living room and climbed into the foetal position in the centre of the floor while making retard noises and rocking side to side. That's about 3 hours ago. Still bewildered and actually, fairly pissed off about it. How the hell they made it to respective ages of 68 and 70 is beyond me!
