Technically Speaking

This is another _Better Living by Doing It Yourself_ story.

Tuesday nights are a little busy around our house. Christina is TA-ing for a class at BYU, so she doesn’t get home until 7:00. I have a presidency meeting that starts at 7:00, so we often cross like proverbial “ships in the night.” This makes dinner interesting, because we usually are home together to fix and eat it.

Last night my presidency meeting had been rescheduled to 6:30, and I don’t get home until 6:00. I was looking for something to eat, when I found four hard boiled eggs in the fridge. Christina had boiled eggs on Friday, and these were left over. I decided that I would make myself an egg-salad sandwich. I removed the shells, and was about to mash the eggs when I remembered that Friday’s eggs hadn’t been totally cooked.

Let me interrupt myself to state, for the record, that I really can’t stand raw eggs. My eggs have to be TOTALLY cooked, or I get grossed out. In fact, I don’t even like to SEE the partially cooked egg. So, I decided that I would microwave them to cook them on the inside before I had to see that they weren’t cooked.

I put the two eggs into the microwave for 60 seconds, and started to put away some dishes that had been washed.

Right as my timer expired there was a HUGE BANG from inside the microwave. My eggs had exploded. We’re not talking “cracked” or something. They literally exploded. It sounded like a bomb had gone off inside the microwave. When I opened the door, I wasn’t sure that one hadn’t.

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But! To my credit, I will say that I cleaned the microwave before Christina got home. (This is why I was late to my meeting; sorry Chad, Chad, and Brady.)

Then I shelled the last two eggs, mashed them first, cooked them in the microwave for about 20 seconds, made my sandwich, and rushed off to my meeting.

And this has been Paul Pehrson with _Better Living by Doing It Yourself_. Tune in next time for more _Better Living_ , true life adventures!

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