I really thought I’d witnessed something miraculous this morning. In my own kitchen.
I like my coffee hot and the one I had made earlier had just begun to cool a little. It was still pretty hot but needed 20 seconds in the microwave, just to get it right. I popped it in, set the dial and waited for the ping. When I took the coffee out, it was stone cold. Well, not stone cold, but room temperature and a lot colder than it was when I’d put it in.
At first, I thought I was dreaming. I know enough about physics and how microwaves work to know that what I’d just seen was simply not possible. I pinched myself, not asleep. I tasted the coffee again, still cold. My heart started to race as my mind tried to figure out what had happened.
I peered into the oven, unsure of what I was looking for, when it struck me. At the back was a mug of coffee that I had placed in there last night to heat up and had then forgotten about. During the 20 seconds, the turntable had revolved by half a revolution and the two mugs had changed places.
12.08.17 | Categories: comedy, musings | Tags: coffee, comedy, microwaves, miracles, Physics | 48 Comments
I was looking through my old Farcebook status updates – these were my top ten, in no particular order. Please help yourselves, and feel free to add some of your own in the comments section, I am sure to use them:
- “will be as faithful to you as a dog and come every time you whistle”
- “is bigger on the inside”
- “remembers the time you ate his goldfish”
- “wanted to unleash a deadly computer virus on you all but couldn’t master the technology – would you mind manually deleting all the important files from your hard drive please and pass this on to fifty of your friends?”
- “is why they put a warning on the box”
- “knows where you live”
- “doesn’t understand why the cat was in the bag in the first place”
- “says the first law of thermodynamics is that we don’t talk about thermodynamics”
- “is proof that ancient man mated with neanderthals”
- “bought some batteries, but they weren’t included”
12.01.25 | Categories: musings, sex, writing | Tags: comedy, dark comedy, Facebook, Farcebook, First law of thermodynamics, Hard disk drive, Heat, Physical law, Physics, Social network, Thermodynamics, Top 40, top ten | Leave a comment
