Today, I learned the hard way that if you tell your child that they're old enough to cook their own food in the microwave, you have to make sure they're smart enough not to put the metal spoon in with the food as well. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after getting home from work late last night and feeling lazy, I'd put my leftover dinner in the microwave, spoon and all. I wake up to find one of the kids started the microwave and it blew up because of the metal spoon. FML
Today, I had to explain very slowly to my mum why she cannot put metal cutlery in the microwave. She did it anyway. FML
Today, one of the kids I was babysitting tried to hard boil eggs using the microwave. You cannot hard boil eggs using the microwave. It makes a mess. This we have learned. FML
Today, I was using the same metal spoon to stir boiling noodles and the pasta sauce I was heating up. I decided to taste the sauce and see if it was getting warm, forgetting that the spoon was sitting in boiling water three seconds earlier. FML
Today, I tried to warm soup in a travel mug. I forgot to take the metal spoon out. The microwave lit up like a firework display, and I screamed so loudly that my neighbor knocked on my door to check if I was alive. FML
Today, I left my daughter with a babysitter for the first time. When I came home, my microwave was ruined because they had attempted to heat cans of Play-Doh as a science experiment. FML
Today, while I was in the shower, my 4 year-old son wondered what would happen if he put 6 eggs in the microwave. FML
Today, I had to explain to my 27 year-old sister why a stainless steel fork isn't a good toy for my 8 month-old baby. Twice. FML
Today, I was babysitting a two year-old. He was messing around with a silver fork and I told him it was dangerous. He then got mad at me, started crying, and stabbed me right in the foot. Be warned, even though they're little, they can still cause a lot of pain. FML
Today, I woke up after putting my child to bed. Drowsy, I stumbled down to the kitchen to make a mug cookie. I read a recipe on my phone, and put a knob of butter in a cup to melt in the microwave. I put my phone in the microwave and turned it on for 30 seconds, and didn't realize what I'd done until I smelt burning plastic. FML
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Top comments
sugarquill 0
It's not about how smart the kid is, it's about how dumb you are for not telling him what he should not put in the microwave. YDI.
Sammara 0
Expecting a kid to know to not put metal in a microwave without being told is like expecting anti-obesity groups to blame parents rather than McDonalds for child obesity.
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Comments (100)
herro97 0
i lit two things on fire in the microwave! i lit a dry towel on fire, and i tried to re-heat a hand warmer, which then exploded. my house smelled like chemicals for 3 days.
lovelylew21 0
I don't get what's wrong with a metal spoon...
the4starr 3
I sometimes out my fork or spoon in with the bowl still. when you get it out you just wait for it to cool
heaven867 3
OMG one time when i was 7 (mastered the microwave) i accidently lef a spoon in a bowl. When I took it out of the microwave next thing i knew I had 7 blisters on my left hand. And that's my writing hand.
FallenNevermorE 0
lol my brother has done that before.... he's 12. It was one of those baby spoons with plastic on the handle wrapped around the metal part. apparently this made him think it wouldn't burn.
jacobw329 0
Wow.. Harsh.. I suppose that if you don't have faith in the intelligence of your child maybe it's your own fault you have to buy a new micro.. Just saying..
chels1994 11
when I was little I put easy mac in without water... fun times ^_^
Sir_Swaggington 6
Kids don't have microwave instincts. OP should've explained to the kid that metal doesn't belong in them.
xRezSynn 15
So...was he really old enough?
aaaa_fml 13
I hate when parents expect their kid to magically gain knowledge with age instead of realizing they have to ******* teach them that kind of thing. "Common knowledge" is only common because generally everyone is taught, not because the information or experience lies dormant in your mind until you're old enough for it.
TallMist 32
I really hope more people read your comment, 96